Master thesis

• Introduction
• Project plan
• Documents

More about myself

• My curriculum vitae
• More about me

Random projects

• Programming contests
• NEATsqueak
• Haptic experiments
• Mergesort madness

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Curriculum vitae

You can also download a PDF version of my curriculum vitae.

I work in several programming-related projects, both as a professional and as a hobbyist. Both my interests and experience revolve around topics on algorithms (general combinatorics, graph theory, geometric computation and others), artificial intelligence and web development.

Education

• • Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering
  • Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP)
  • Average grade of 17 out of 20.
  • From 2004 to 2010

Work experience

• • Computer Graphics undergraduate teaching assistant
  • Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP)
  • I helped students with their C++, Java and OpenGL problems, with special focus on lighting, texture mapping, shading and transformations.
  • February 2009 to June 2009
• • Statistics gathering system developer
  • National Healthcare Regulation Entity (ERS)
  • I wrote SQL queries for a module that generates reports on complaints for all portuguese healthcare entities. This web application was written in ASP.NET and MSSQL.
  • Summer 2007
• • Web development
  • Centre for Spatial Communication and Representation
  • In a team of three, I planned and developed a social web platform for the publication of architectural projects. We used Flash, XML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and Python.
  • 2006 to 2009
• • Algorithms and Data Structures private tutor
  • Freelancer
  • I helped two graduation finalists with their studies for the final exam on the algorithms and data structures course. They both succeeded, with grades of 13 and 19 out of 20.
  • Summer 2006

Extra curricular experience

• • OpenID Provider developer
  • FEUP's Students Union: Informatics Division (NIFEUP)
  • I implemented part of an OpenID Provider for FEUP's community. I connected it to our authentication server, providing thousands of accounts without need for registration.
  • April to October 2009
• • President
  • FEUP's Students Union: Informatics Division (NIFEUP)
  • I monitor and coordinate the group's projects and activities. I interact with several faculty departments, looking for opportunities to start new projects.
  • Since 2009
• • Haptic device programmer
  • Measurement for Instrumentation Laboratory, at FEUP (LIM)
  • I developed a game in which the user controls a physical pointer and tries to pop virtual balloons with it. The game was developed in C++, using OpenGL and the device's library.
  • 2007 to 2009
• • Founding member
  • FEUP's Students Union: Informatics Division (NIFEUP)
  • I developed several web applications to help gather funding for this group. On the World Usability Day of 2008, I helped with the organisation of a set of talks on the subject.
  • 2006 to 2009

Publications

• • Hugo Peixoto, João Portela, Rui Teixeira, Filipe Castro, Luís Paulo Reis.
  • NEATSqueak on Wheels: Neural networks applied to movement optimization of a simulated robot
  • Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Epia 2009, Aveiro, Portugal, October 12-15, 2009, Proceedings
• • António M. Lopes, Júlio Santos, Hugo Peixoto, A. Augusto Sousa, M. Teresa Restivo
  • Human-Machine Real-Virtual Haptic Interaction Systems
  • Virtual University 9th International Conference, Bratislava, 11-12 December, 2008

Additional information

Languages

Portuguese (native) and English (fluent)

Programming contests

I have been participating, in a team of three, in several programming contests held by the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM), since 2005. In 2008, our team obtained the following results:

• CPUP (University of Porto Programming Contest) 3rd place
• TIUP (Portuguese Inter-University Tournament) 1st place
• MIUP (Portuguese Inter-University Marathon) 3rd place
• SWERC (South-Western European Regional Contest) 19th place

I also participated in Google Code Jam 2008 and 2009, a worldwide programming contest, with more than 8000 participants. In 2009, I got to the third round, ranking among the best 500 contestants.

In 2007, I participated in a national functional and logic programming contest (CeNPLf'07). Among 14 teams, mine ranked fourth place.

Open source contributions

I have contributed to multiple open source projects, such as Ruby on Rails, by submitting code patches. I also helped by translating some software packages to Portuguese, for the Debian Project.