curriculum vitae
Personal Information
Name / Pereira,Gonçalo Duarte Garcia
Address / Rua Públia Hortênsia de Castro, nº11 6ºB, 1500-519, Lisboa, Portugal
Telephone / +351 93 361 37 88
E-mail /
Nationality / Portuguese
Birthday / 13, January, 1985
Professional Experience
• Dates / From March 2011 toAugust 2011
• Name and address of the employer / National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan
• Type of company or area of activity / Research and Development in Computer Science
• Position function / Researcher internship (NII International Internship Program)
• Main activities and responsibilities / My work focused on the needs of the Open Energy Sim (OES) project. I started by
creating the Artificial Intelligence (AI) component for autonomously driven cars in the eco-driving scenario created by OES and its supporting tools. Following this, I worked on asset integration for Unity3D©, namely avatar positioning in 3D cars and a 3D model of Tokyo city, procedurally generated in CityEngine©. Next, I integrated the OpenTraffic project into OES to create traffic simulations and analyzed its optimization and implementation problems. Finally, I created a first version of a querying system to extract high level traffic information from an OES simulation.
• Dates / FromOctober 2010 and still ongoing
• Name and address of the employer / GALA – Games and Learning Alliance – Network of Excellence for Serious Games funded by the European Union European Union in FP7
• Type of company or area of activity / ICT – Technology Enhanced Learning
• Position function / Task Leader, Contributor
• Main activities and responsibilities / The main activities are of organization, planning and leadership of two tasks included in two distinct workpackages. The first task focuses the research of how can Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Personalization technology improve Serious Games (at the level of gameplay experience and learning). The second task researches existing Serious Games within the theme of Personal and Social Learning & Ethics and also what are the requirements or gaps in this category. Aside from these main activites I also contributed to other tasks.
• Dates / FromDecember 2000 to September 2005
• Name and address of the employer / PLB Informática, Lda
• Type of company or area of activity / Informatics
• Position function / Customer technical support
• Main activities and responsibilities / My activities at the level of technical support to the customer focused the assemblage of computers, software installation, diagnosis and repairs of malfunctions (of both software and hardware). I also had full supervisioning responsibilities regarding a restaurant support software. For this I had specific training in the software and then trained the employess in the restaurant.
Academic and Professional Training
• Dates / From22ndMarch 2010and still ongoing
• Name and type of teaching or training institution / Instituto Superior Técnico
• Topic / Social Power relationships between Synthetic Characters and Users
• Title of qualification awarded / PhD – Information Systems and Computer Engineering
• Grants / Doctoral grant from FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
• Dates / From 31st August 2007 to 31st December 2009
• Name and type of teaching or training institution / Instituto Superior Técnico
• Topic / Adaptative Map Generation For Turn-based Strategic Multiplayer Browser Games
• Title of qualification awarded / MSc – Information Systems and Computer Engineering – Alameda Campus
• Grade (if applicable) / 17 (on a 0-20 scale)
• Dates / From 15th January 2008 to 25th June 2008
• Name and type of teaching or training institution / KTH – Royal Institute of Technology (in Sweeden)
• Title of qualification awarded / 2nd semester of 1st year of the MSc – Information Systems and Computer Engineering – Alameda Campus
• Dates / From 31st July 2004 to 30th August 2007
• Name and type of teaching or training institution / Instituto Superior Técnico
• Title of qualification awarded / BSc – Information Systems and Computer Engineering – Alameda Campus
• Grade (if applicable) / 15 (on a 0-20 scale)
• Dates / From 1st August 2003 to 30th July 2004
• Name and type of teaching or training institution / Instituto Superior Técnico
• Title of qualification awarded / 1st year finished of the 5 year BSc – Physics Engineering
• Grade (if applicable) / 15 (on a 0-20 scale)
• Dates / From September 2000 to July 2003
• Name and type of teaching or training institution / High School - Vergílio Ferreira
• Title of qualification awarded / High School grade in the Cientific area
• Dates / From 1988 to August 2000
• Name and type of teaching or training institution / Externato da Luz
• Title of qualification awarded / Basic and Pre-Basic school
Personal aptitudes and competences
NativeLanguage / Portuguese
OtherLanguages
English
• Writing understanding / Excelent
• Writing skill / Excelent
• Speaking skill / Excelent
Spanish
• Writing understanding / Basic
• Writing skill / Weak
• Speaking skill / Weak
French
• Writing understanding / Basic
• Writing skill / Weak
• Speaking skill / Weak
Social Aptiudes and Competences / Participated in the european mobility programme Erasmus as a componente of my academic training for the MSc – Information Systems and Computer Engineering – Alameda campus. The Exchange programme lasted for a semester (1st of 2008) in Stockholm, Sweeden, where I had the oportunity to work and socialize with students and people from varied nationalities.
Participation in several sport competitions, in the sports of 11 football (soccer), table tennis, swimming and taekwondo.
Regular participation in football games with friends.
Participated in a classic guitar trio event from Valentim de Carvalho in 2000.
Organization Aptiudes and Competences / Was responsible for diverse tasks in the local organization committee of th 2nd Alignment School for the european project GALA.
I frequently coordinate football games.
At the academic level I frequently leaded the projects into which I participated.
At the end of my studies as a Physics Engineering student at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and also during my studies for BSc in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, I was responsible for the assembly of the magazine Pulsar from the Physics Student Association at IST.
Technical Aptiudes and Competences / Experience in the assembly and support to hardware at the personal computer level.
Experience in the instalation and configuration of operating systems, mostly from Microsoft Windows (98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7) but also from Linux (Ubuntu, Debian).
Experience in support and maintenance of Windows operating systems, namely for removal of malware (virus, spyware, trojans, etc) and repairs in software failures.
Software development experience for both academic and personal projects in the programming languages C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, Flash/ActionScript, PLT Scheme, Common Lisp, Ruby on Rails and Assembly.
Experience in the utilization for both academic and personal projects of relational databases Microsoft Sql Server 2005, MySQL and Microsoft Access.
Experience in the utilization for both academic and personal projects of the technologies Unity3D, OpenSG, OpenGL, SDL, XML, HTML, CSS e UML.
Experience in the utilization for academic projects of tools for project planning and management, such as Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Enterprise Architect.
Experience in the utilization, for production of academic and personal contents, of the office tools Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
I have also had some experience at the level of systems administration the context of my PhD research group. Specifically, I have acquired technical competences at the level of web services configuration (Wiki, Redmine, Rhodecode, LDAP).
Artistic Aptiudes and Competences / Basic skills of classic guitar learned at the music school Valentim de Carvalho.
Basic skills of drawing and composition (manual and digital).
Other Aptiudes and Competences / Participation in Scientific Meetings
- GALA Alignment School – 2nd Edition, Carcavelos, Portugal, June 2012, Organizer from the local committee;
- Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Springer, Memphis, USA, October 2011, G. Pereira, J. Dimas, P. Santos, R. Prada & A. Paiva, Presented the paper: A Game Prototype with Emotional Contagion;
- Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Springer, Memphis, USA, October 2011, G. Pereira, J. Dimas, P. Santos, R. Prada & A. Paiva, Presented the paper: A Generic Emotional Contagion Computational Model;
- 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACM, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2011, J. Dimas, G. Pereira, P. Santos, R. Prada & A. Paiva, Presented the paper: “I’m happy if you are happy.” A model for emotional contagion in game characters;
- Videojogos 2010, SPCV, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2010, participated as a volunteer for the organization;
- 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECCAI/APPIA, Lisboa, Portugal, August 2010, participated as a volunteer for the organization;
- Videojogos 2009, SPCV, Aveiro, Portugal, 26-27 November 2009 G. Pereira, P.A. Santos, & R. Prada, Presented the paper: Growing Maps in Strategic Multiplayer Browser Games;
- 5th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, ACM, Atenas, Grécia, 29-31 October 2009 G. Pereira, P.A. Santos, & R. Prada, Presented the paper: Self-Adapting Dynamically Generated Maps for Turn-Based Multiplayer Browser Games;
Driver’s License / Portuguese Driver’s License for lightweight vehicles (B) – enables me to drive regular passenger cars
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