António Lopes

Biography

I'm the Head of Information System Development at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) where I lead a team of developers that design and develop in-house systems and websites, focusing on the development of APIs, integration with existing platforms/databases and front-end/back-end development using MVC frameworks. I'm also a researcher at Instituto das Telecomunicações (IT-IUL) in Lisbon. My main fields of research are Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, which are part of the wider research area of Artificial Intelligence. My research interests are related to autonomous agents, robotics and multi-agent systems, more particularly the creation of a synergy of intelligence by combining the different, yet complementary, capabilities of multiple autonomous agents. I was a teacher at ISCTE-IUL for more than 10 years, where I've taught, mostly, courses of the Computer Science Engineering degrees: * Programming related courses, mostly in Java (Parallel and Concurrent Programming, Introduction to Programming, Algorithms and Data Structures) * Systems Design and Development, focusing on MVC architectures and frameworks (Information Systems Design and Development, Systems Information Flows, Databases Fundamentals) * Introductory courses (Introduction to Computer Science) I have a PhD on Artificial Intelligence from ISCTE-IUL, done with the support of a PhD scholarship grant provided by FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology). My research work focused on Distributed Coordination in Unstructured Intelligent Agent Societies. Specialties: Web development, systems design and development, API and middleware integration, artificial intelligence research.

Research Interest

Artificial Intelligence