People
Nuno Lourenço
Home Page
https://eden.dei.uc.pt/~naml/CV Short
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Evolutionary and Complex SystemsResearch interests
Evolutionary ComputationMachine Learning
Optimisation
Short Bio
Nuno Lourenço is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, where he obtained is PhD in Information Science and Technology in 2016. He is the coordinator of the Evolutionary and Complex Systems (ECOS) group, and is a member of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of University of Coimbra (CISUC) since 2009. Formerly, he was appointed as a Senior Research Officer at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. His main research interests are in the areas Bio-Inspired Algorithms, Optimisation and Machine Learning. He is the creator of Structured Grammatical Evolution, a genotypic representation for Grammatical Evolution, and participated in the proposal of a novel approach to automatically design Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) using Evolutionary Computation called DENSER. He served as publication chair for two of the most important conferences of the Evolutionary Computation field, namely the PPSN XV and EuroGP 2019. He will be chair of EuroGP 2020. He is member of the Programme Committee of some of GECCO, PPSN, EuroGP; member of the Steering Committee of EuroGP; and executive board member of SPECIES. He has authored or co-authored several articles in journals and top conferences from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Intelligence areas and he has been involved as a researcher in many national and international projects.National Projects
MitoScreening: Development and Validation of Innovative Screening Methods for Mitochondrial Health Modulators
LEXIA
GADgET - Online Gambling Addiction Detection
ACCELERATION - Automatic Artificial Neural Networks for Gamma-Ray Detection
Past Projects
FCT/CAPES: Study of the energetic landscapes of atomic clusters by applying novel bio-inspired algorithms
STRATIO - AI
Journal Articles
2020
(1 publication)- Maçãs, C. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado , "Evolving Visual Artefacts based on Consumption Patterns", International Journal of Arts and Technology, 2020 [ DOI ]
2019
(5 publications)- Pereira, G.C. and Pereira, S.P. and Pereira, F.B. and Lourenço, Nuno and Lumini, J.A. and Pereira, C.V. and Bjork, J.A. and Magalhães, J. and Ascensão, A. and Moreno, A.J. and Wallace, K.B. and Oliveira, P.J. , "Early Cardiac Mitochondrial Molecular and Functional Responses to Acute Anthracycline Treatment in Wistar Rats", Toxicological Sciences, 2019
- Assunção, F. and Correia, J. and Conceição, R. and Pimenta, M.J.M. and Tomé, B. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado , "Automatic Design of Artificial Neural Networks for Gamma-Ray Detection", IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 110531-110540, 2019 [ DOI ]
- Pereira, F.B. and Lourenço, Nuno and Jesus, W. and Prudente, F.V. and Marques, J.C. , "Discovering low-energy atomic clusters with machine learning", European Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 49, pp. 41, 2019
- Lourenço, Nuno and Colmenar, J.M. and Garnica, Ó. and Hidalgo, J.I. , "Predicting glucose in diabetic patients using structured grammatical evolution", European Journal of Clinical Investigation , vol. 49, 2019
- Pino, R. and Cunha-Oliveira, T. and Carvalho, F. and Garcia, R. and Burgeiro, A. and Carvalho, R.A. and Oliveira, P.J. and Lourenço, Nuno , "Uncovering hidden patterns in biological datasets to identify metabolic alterations caused by acute and sub-chronic DOX treatments", European Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 49, 2019
2018
(3 publications)- Burgeiro, A. and Fonseca, A.C. and Espinoza, D. and Carvalho, L. and Lourenço, Nuno and Antunes, M. and Carvalho, E. , "Proteostasis in epicardial versus subcutaneous adipose tissue in heart failure subjects with and without diabetes ", Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease , vol. 1864, pp. 2183-2183, 2018
- Granjal, J and Silva, J.M. and Lourenço, Nuno , "Intrusion Detection and Prevention in CoAP Wireless Sensor Networks Using Anomaly Detection", Sensors, vol. 18, pp. 2445-2445, 2018
- Assunção, F. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado and Ribeiro, B. , "DENSER: deep evolutionary network structured representation", Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2018 [ DOI ]
2016
(2 publications)- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Unveiling the properties of structured grammatical evolution", Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines , pp. 1-39, 2016 [ DOI ]
- Lassed, S. and Deus, C.M. and Lourenço, Nuno and Dahdouh, A. and Rizvanov, A.A. and Oliveira, P.J. and Zama, D. , "Diet, Lifestyles, Family History, and Prostate Cancer Incidence in an East Algerian Patient Group", BioMed Research International, 2016 [ DOI ]
2011
(1 publication)Conference Articles
2020
(9 publications)- Assunção, F. and Lourenço, Nuno and Ribeiro, B. and Penousal Machado , "Incremental Evolution and Development of Deep Artificial Neural Networks", in EuroGP2020, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Assunção, F. and Lourenço, Nuno and Ribeiro, B. and Penousal Machado , "Evolution of Scikit-Learn Pipelines with Dynamic Structured Grammatical Evolution", in EvoAPPS2020, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Using Skill Rating as Fitness on the Evolution of GANs", in EvoAPPS2020, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Martins, J. and Barbosa, R. and Lourenço, Nuno and Robin, J. and Madeira, H. , "Online Verification through Model Checking of Medical Critical Intelligent Systems", in Dependable and Secure Machine Learning (DSML 2020) co-located with the 50th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2020) , 2020 [ DOI ]
- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Exploring the evolution of GANs through quality diversity", in Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Carvalho, P. and Lourenço, Nuno and Assunção, F. and Penousal Machado , "AutoLR: an evolutionary approach to learning rate policies", in Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Lourenço, Nuno and Colmenar, J.M. and Hidalgo, J.I. and Salcedo-Sanz, S. , "Evolving energy demand estimation models over macroeconomic indicators", in Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020
- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Using Skill Rating as Fitness on the Evolution of GANs", in Applications of Evolutionary Computation - 23rd European Conference, EvoApplications 2020, Held as Part of EvoStar 2020, Seville, Spain, April 15-17, 2020, Proceedings, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Exploring the Evolution of GANs through Quality Diversity", in Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020 [ DOI ]
2019
(7 publications)- Assunção, F. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado and Ribeiro, B. , "Fast DENSER: Efficient Deep NeuroEvolution", in EuroGP 2019, 2019
- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado , "Coevolution of Generative Adversarial Networks", in EvoAPPS 2019, 2019
- Lourenço, Nuno and Colmenar, J.M. and Hidalgo, J.I. and Garnica, Ó. , "Structured Grammatical Evolution for Glucose Prediction in Diabetic Patients", in The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2019, 2019
- Lourenço, Nuno and Bruno Cabral and Granjal, J , "Driving Profile using Evolutionary Computation", in 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2019 [ DOI ]
- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "COEGAN: evaluating the coevolution effect in generative adversarial networks", in GECCO 2019, 2019 [ DOI ]
- Valentim, I. and Lourenço, Nuno and Nuno Antunes , "The Impact of Data Preparation on the Fairness of Software Systems", in International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2019), 2019
- João Miguel Cunha and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Martins, P. and Penousal Machado , "Emojinating: Evolving Emoji Blends", in Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. (EvoMUSART 2019), 2019 [ DOI ]
2018
(4 publications)- Assunção, F. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado and Ribeiro, B. , "Evolving the Topology of Large Scale Deep Neural Networks", in EuroGP 2018, 2018
- Assunção, F. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado and Ribeiro, B. , "Using GP is NEAT: Evolving Compositional Pattern Production Functions", in EuroGP 2018, 2018
- Assunção, F. and Serero, D. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado and Ribeiro, B. , "Automatic Evolution of AutoEncoders for Compressed Representations", in World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2018
- Maçãs, C. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado , "Interactive Evolution of Swarms for the Visualisation of Consumptions", in ArtsIT 2018 – 7th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation, 2018, 2018
2017
(7 publications)- Lourenço, Nuno and Ferrer, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "A Comparative Study of Different Grammar-Based Genetic Programming Approaches", in EuroGP, 2017 [ DOI ]
- Lourenço, Nuno and Assunção, F. and Maçãs, C. and Penousal Machado , "EvoFashion: Customising Fashion Through Evolution", in International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART), 2017
- Assunção, F. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado and Ribeiro, B. , "Automatic Generation of Neural Networks with Structured Grammatical Evolution", in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2017
- Assunção, F. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado and Ribeiro, B. , "Towards the Evolution of Multi-Layered Neural Networks: A Dynamic Structured Grammatical Evolution Approach", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2017
- Alcides Fonseca and Lourenço, Nuno and Bruno Cabral , " Evolving Cut-Off Mechanisms and Other Work-Stealing Parameters for Parallel Programs", in Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 2017 [ DOI ]
- Assunção, F. and Lourenço, Nuno and Ribeiro, B. and Penousal Machado , "Evolutionary Machine Learning: An Essay on Bechmarking", in Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), 2017
- Assunção, F. and Lourenço, Nuno and Ribeiro, B. and Penousal Machado , "Evolutionary Machine Learning: An Essay on Experimental Design", in Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), 2017
2016
(1 publication)- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "An Evolutionary Approach to the Full Optimization of the Traveling Thief Problem", in EvoCOP, 2016 [ DOI ]
2015
(2 publications)- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "The Optimization Ability of Evolved Strategies", in 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2015), 2015
- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "SGE: A Structured Representation for Grammatical Evolution", in Artificial Evolution 2015, 2015
2013
(2 publications)- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "The Importance of the Learning Conditions in Hyper-Heuristics", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013), 2013
- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Learning Selection Strategies for Evolutionary Algorithms", in Artificial Evolution (EA-2013), 2013
2012
(2 publications)- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. , "DACCO: A Discrete Ant Colony Algorithm to Cluster Geometry Optimization", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012), 2012
- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Evolving Evolutionary Algorithms", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012), 2012
Edited Books
2020
(1 publication)- Hu, T. and Lourenço, Nuno and Medvet, E. and Divina, F. , Proceedings of the EuroGP: European Conference on Genetic Programming , "EuroGP: European Conference on Genetic Programming 2020", vol. 12101, 2020 [ DOI ]
2019
(1 publication)2018
(2 publications)- Auger, A. and Fonseca, C.M. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado and Paquete, L. and Whitley, D. , "Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – (PPSN XV) - Part 1", vol. 11101, 2018 [ DOI ]
- Auger, A. and Fonseca, C.M. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado and Paquete, L. and Whitley, D. , "Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – (PPSN XV) - Part 2", vol. 11102, 2018 [ DOI ]
Book Chapters
2020
(1 publication)- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Neuroevolution of Generative Adversarial Networks", in Natural Computing Series, vol. 1, pp. 293-322, 2020 [ DOI ]
2018
(2 publications)- Lourenço, Nuno and Assunção, F. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. and Penousal Machado , "Structured Grammatical Evolution: A Dynamic Approach", in Handbook of Grammatical Evolution, vol. 1, pp. 1-24, 2018
- Marques, J.C. and Jesus, W. and Prudente, F.V. and Pereira, F.B. and Lourenço, Nuno , "Revealing Energy Landscapes of Atomic Clusters by Applying Adaptive Bioinspired Algorithms", in Physical Chemistry for Chemists and Chemical Engineers: Multidisciplinary Research Perspectives, vol. 1, pp. 49-70, 2018