Biografia
His research interests include Evolutionary Computation, Computational Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Visualization. He is the author of more than 200 refereed journal and conference papers in these areas, and his peer-reviewed publications have been nominated and awarded multiple times as best paper. Until May 2022 his publications gathered over 4000 citations, an h-index of 29, and an i10-index of 94. He was the advisor of 12 PhD thesis and 45 MSc thesis. He is also the chair of several scientific events, including, among the most recent, ICCC 2020, PPSN XV, and EvoStar 2016; member of the Programme Committee and Editorial Board of some of the main conferences and journals in these fields; member of the Steering Committee of EuroGP, EvoMUSART and Evostar. He is the recipient of several scientific awards, including the prestigious EvoStar Award for outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe, and the award for Excellence and Merit in Artificial Intelligence granted by the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence. Penousal Machado has been invited to perform keynote speeches in various domains, from evolutionary computation to visualization and art. His work was featured in the Leonardo journal, Wired magazine and presented in venues such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Portugal) and the “Talk to me” exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art, NY (MoMA).
Fontes
Ciência Vitae – https://www.cienciavitae.pt/F414-96CE-1D6B