About Me

• Teaching Assistant, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra
• Researcher,Centre for Informatics and System of the University of Coimbra (CISUC) and Institure of Systems and Robotics of the University of Coimbra (ISR-UC)

Biography

João Macedo is a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, where he is responsible for practical classes of Introduction to Java Programming and Evolutionary Computation. He is a researcher at CISUC and ISR-UC and he is currently pursuing a PhD in Evolutionary Robotics, where he focuses on developing Genetic Programming algorithms to automatically produce human-readable robotic controllers, applied to locating the sources of pollutants. He has helped with the organization of several conferences, namely EvoStar2016, ICARSC2017, PPSN2018 and GECCO2022 and is a member of the program committee of EvoAPPS and ROBOT.

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence
• Robotics
• Evolutionary Computation
• Evolutionary Robotics
• Genetic Programming

Service

• Programme Committee Member
  • International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications): 2022, 2023
  • Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT): 2022

• Reviewer
  • Journals
  • Applied Soft Computing (ASOC): 2018 - 2022
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO): 2021
  • International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS): 2020
  • Conferences
  • International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications): 2022, 2023
  • Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT): 2022
  • IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS): 2020