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Manuel Cabido Lopes is an Associate Professor at Higher Technical Institute and a Senior Researcher at INESC-ID. His research bridges artificial and natural learning processes, with a focus on advancing AI to enhance human well-being through intelligent technologies.
- Current Affiliation: Department of Computer Engineering, Higher Technical Institute
- Research Focus: Applied machine learning, computational sustainability, interactive systems, human-machine collaboration
- Teaching: Courses in Autonomous Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Intelligent Decision Making
Research Trends: His recent publications emphasize automated user experience testing, deep learning for environmental monitoring, and AI-driven optimization in robotics. Key themes include game level design, continual learning algorithms, and reinforcement learning applications in complex systems. Sub-fields span sensor placement, social robotics, and adaptive educational technologies.
PhD Advisees: Mentors current students Ziqi Huang (with Nuno Nunes), Jacopo Silvestrin (with Francisco Melo), and Pedro Fernandes (with Rui Prada), as well as former students Carla Guerra, Baptiste Busch, Yoan Mollard, Thibaut Munzer, and Jonathan Grizou.
Projects: Leads EU-funded Carma (collaborative emergency response robots), WSmart+ (smart waste collection), and Relevant (non-stationary reinforcement learning). Past projects include 3rdHand (FP7), KidLearn (France), and foundational robotics research like Robotcub and iCub development.
