Europass Curriculum Vitae Personal information Surname(s) / First name(s) Address(es) - Telephone(s) (+351) 967 504 370 Email(s) Nationality(-ies) rlopes@di.fc.ul.pt, ruidlopes@gmail.com Portuguese Date of birth May 18th, 1980 Work experience October 2007 March 2008 Occupation or position held Teaching Assistant Main activities and responsibilities Assistant to the course on Introduction to the Information Technologies, lectured to all graduations of the Faculty of Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon Type of business or sector Higher Education Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities Type of business or sector Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities Name and address of employer Type of business or sector Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities Name and address of employer Type of business or sector December 2005 onwards Invited Expert Define Technical Recommendations in the XML Processing Model Working Group (XProc) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Internet Standards Committee October 2004 onwards Systems Administrator Computer Networks Maintenance and Administration LaSIGE Departamento de Informática Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Bloco C6, Piso 3, sala 6.3.30, Campo Grande 1749-016 Lisboa Portugal Research Laboratory January 2003 onwards Junior Researcher, Researcher Design and implementation of XML, Hypermedia and Multimedia processing architectures LaSIGE Departamento de Informática Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Bloco C6, Piso 3, sala 6.3.29, Campo Grande 1749-016 Lisboa Portugal Research Laboratory June September 2002 Occupation or position held Intern Page 1 - Curriculum vitæ of
Main activities and responsibilities Computer Systems Architectures Consulting Name and address of employer IRC Innovation Relay Centre Portugal Av. Prof. Cavaco Silva, n. 33 Talaíde/Taguspark 2780-920 Porto Salvo Type of business or sector Innovation June September 1999 Occupation or position held Intern Main activities and responsibilities Computer Networks Maintenance and Administration Name and address of employer ISQ Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade Av. Prof. Cavaco Silva, n. 33 Talaíde/Taguspark 2780-920 Porto Salvo Type of business or sector Technical and Scientific Services Education and training February June 2007 COHiTEC - Turning Technologies into Businesses, in cooperation with Universidade Nova de Lisboa MBA program and the North Carolina State University HiTEC program Winner of the competition Enterpreneurship, Management, Technology Innovation September December 2006 Vector-E Science and Technology Commercialization: Planning and Managing New Business Ventures Winner of the competition Enterpreneurship, Management, Technology Innovation July 2006 onwards PhD in Computer Science Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Hypermedia, Multimedia, Web Applications, Accessibility, Usability October 2005 June 2006 Goethe-Institut Lissabon Reading, writing, and speaking the German language September 2005 June 2006 Master in Computer Science Page 2 - Curriculum vitæ of
Thesis Title: Time-based Hypermedia Processing and Pattern System". Research on patterns for Hypermedia and Multimedia systems, XML processing architectures (design and implementation), and multimedia content integration processes. September 2004 July 2005 Computer Engineering (classification: 19/20) Report Title: DiTaBBu Digital Talking Books Builder". Implementation of a Digital Talking Book Production Framework. Complementary courses on Advanced Interaction Techniques, Middleware and WebServices Technologies, Visualization, and Aspect-Oriented Software Development 2003 onwards HCIM Human-Computer Interaction and Multimedia group, part of LaSIGE Research Lab Departamento de Informática Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa N/A Hypermedia, Multimodality, Usability 2000 2004 Graduate in Computer Science (classification: 15/20) Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval, Databases, Computer Networks and Security, Parallel Programming, Object-Oriented Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematics, Business and Administration. 1998 1999 Architecture, Universidade Lusíada Project, Drawing, Mathematics, Descriptive Geometry Summer 1995 Severnvale Academy, Shrewsbury, United Kingom Reading, writing, and speaking the English language Summer 1994 Severnvale Academy, Shrewsbury, United Kingom Page 3 - Curriculum vitæ of
Reading, writing, and speaking the English language Summer 1993 English Language Training, Banbury, Oxford, United Kingom Reading, writing, and speaking the English language Awards Personal skills and competences Mother tongue(s) Other language(s) Best paper award at ACM W4A 2008 (The 5th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility) with the paper The Impact of Accessibility Assessment in Macro Scale Universal Usability Studies of the Web Ex-aequo winner of the COHiTEC competition Turning Technologies into Businesses 2007 Edition, with the business project Local Search Ex-aequo winner of the Vector-E competition Science and Technology Commercialization: Planning and Managing New Business Ventures 2006 Edition, with the business project Localiki Portuguese Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing European level (*) English French Spanish Listening C1 Reading B2 Independent Spoken interaction Spoken production C1 A2 Basic Italian A1 Basic A1 Basic A1 Basic A1 Basic German A1 Basic A1 Basic A1 Basic A1 Basic A1 Basic (*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level Page 4 - Curriculum vitæ of
Social skills and competences Participant on CPDI 2005 Concurso de Programação do Departamento de Informática (Faculty Programming Contest); Participant on SWERC 2004 South Western Europe Regional ACM Programming Contest; Participant on MIUP 2004 Maratona Inter-Universitária de Programação, finishing at 10th place (Inter-Universitary Programming Contest); Participant on CPDI 2004 Concurso de Programação do Departamento de Informática, finishing at 2nd place (Faculty Programming Contest); Participant on Dias Abertos da Faculdade de Ciências", 2004 (Faculty Open Days); Ex-member of the Portuguese Scouts (Corpo Nacional de Escutas e Associação de Escuteiros de Portugal); Ex-member of the Portuguese Tennis Federation (Federação Portuguesa de Ténis). Organisational skills and competences Student volunteer on CIKM 2007" ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management; Student volunteer on WWW 2007" 16th ACM International World Wide Web Conference; Local organization of XATA 2007 XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas (Portuguese Student volunteer on EuroPLoP 2006" 11th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs; Student volunteer on WWW 2006" 15th ACM International World Wide Web Conference; Student volunteer on ESEC/FSE 2005" Joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE); Student volunteer on Interacção 2004" 1a Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina (Portuguese Human-Computer Interaction conference); Member of the Student Comission of the Departamento de Informática, during 2003 and 2004; Organization of Informania 2004" Computer related JobShop for the Departamento de Informática. Computer skills and competences Windows and Unix systems administration (including OS X); Microsoft Office; Digital art (Photoshop, 3D Studio, Blender). Page 5 - Curriculum vitæ of
Artistic skills and competences Playing musical instruments (guitar, bass, drums, keyboards); Drawing (pastel, graphite); Painting (oil, acrylic, water colour). Driving licence(s) Yes (Category B) Additional information Publications 2008 Rui Lopes and Luís Carriço. A Model for Universal Usability on the Web. WSW2008: Web Science Workshop 2008, 2008 Rui Lopes and Luís Carriço. The impact of accessibility assessment in macro scale universal usability studies of the web. pages 5 14, 2008 Rui Lopes. A Tutorial on XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. XATA2008: XML - Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, 2008 2007 Rui Lopes and Luís Carriço. Modelling Web Accessibility for Rich Document Production. Accepted for the Journal of Access Services, 2007 Rui Lopes and Luís Carriço. Leveraging Rich Accessible Documents on the Web. In W4A 2007: the 4th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, Banff, Canada, 2007. ACM Press Rui Lopes and Luís Carriço. Automating XML Pipelines Through Rules. XATA2007: XML - Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, 2007 Rui Lopes and Luís Carriço. Browsing a structured multimedia repository. In WEBIST 2007: 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, 2007 Rui Lopes, Hugo Simões, Carlos Duarte, and Luís Carriço. Rich digital books for the web. In WEBIST 2007: 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, 2007 2006 Rui Lopes, Carlos Duarte, Hugo Simões, and Luís Carriço. On the road to rich digital books. In Interacção 2006: 2nd Portuguese Human-Computer Interaction Conference, 2006 Rui Lopes and Luís Carriço. Patterns for time-based hypermedia artifacts. In EuroPLoP 2006: European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, 2006 Rui Lopes, Luís Carriço, and Carlos Duarte. Ditabbu - automating the production of time-based hypermedia. In WWW 2006: the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2006. ACM Press Rui Lopes and Luís Carriço. Building Reusable Pipelines with APP. XATA2006: XML - Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, 2006 2005 Rui Lopes and Luís Carriço. APP - Architecture for Pipelined Processing. IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2005, 2005 Luís Carriço, Carlos Duarte, Rui Lopes, Miguel Rodrigues, and Nuno Guimarães. Building Rich User Interfaces for Digital Talking Books. In Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces IV. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005 2004 Eduardo Lopes, Rui Lopes, and Susana Escala. I&D e Inovação como factores da competitividade das empresas. Seminário EMAF 2004 Inovar para um futuro responsável, 2004 2003 Page 6 - Curriculum vitæ of
Luís Carriço, Rui Lopes, Miguel Rodrigues, Amadeu Dias, and Pedro Antunes. Making XML from Hypermedia Models. In Proceedings of WWW/ Internet 2003, International Association for Development of the Information Society, IADIS, 2003 Rui Lopes, Miguel Rodrigues, Amadeu Dias, and Luís Carriço. Arquitecturas XML para Concretização de Modelos Hipermédia. In Proceedings of the 4a Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação, 2003 Luís Carriço, Rui Lopes, Miguel Rodrigues, and Amadeu Dias. XML na Modelação de Sistemas Hipermédia. In Actas da Primeira Workshop em XML, Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, XATA 03, 2003 Chairing ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2009 - Universally-Accessible Systems Track (SAC 2009 - UAS), co-chairing Program Comitees XATA 2008 - XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas (Portuguese Conference reviews Peer reviewer for XATA 2008 XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas (Portuguese Peer reviewer for SNPD2007 IEEE 8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing; Peer reviewer for XATA 2007 XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas (Portuguese Peer reviewer for IADIS Applied Computing 2007; Reviewer for ACM SAC 2007 Symposium on Applied Computing, Multimedia and Visualization Track; Peer reviewer for XATA 2006 XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas (Portuguese Peer reviewer for XATA 2005 XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas (Portuguese Peer reviewer for CAPSI 2004 - Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação (Portuguese Information Technologies conference). Personal interests Art - Charcoal drawing, Pastel painting, Photography; Music - Playing guitar, Piano, Drums; Cinema; Inline skating; Mountain biking; Hiking; Tennis; Horse riding. Page 7 - Curriculum vitæ of