PAULO SANTOS

Artificial Intelligence researcher and educator bringing over 20 years of extensive experience in university-level teaching, supervising PhD students, and spearheading projects of industrial significance, having demonstrated a profound commitment to advancing knowledge in the field of AI, both through academic endeavors and practical applications in industry.

• Keynote speaker, IEEE ANZSCON 2022, Adelaide, Australia, 2022
• Program co-chair, Dagstuhl Seminar 20172, 2021
• Program co-chair, Dagstuhl Seminar 15192, 2015
• Program co-chair, Brazilian Conference for Intelligent Systems, S. Carlos, 2014
• Visiting academic, Corunna University, Spain, June 2014, July 2014, Bank Santander
• Program co-chair, SHAPES2.0: the shape of things, Rio de Janeiro, 2013
• Visiting academic, Bremen University, Germany, June 2012, July 2012, Bremen University
• Keynote speaker, SHAPES1.0: the shape of things, Karlsruhe, 2011
• Program chair, 5th Latin American Robotics Symposium, 2010
• Visiting academic, School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, January 2011, EU
• Visiting academic, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, January 2007, NRC-CNRC
• Visiting academic, School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, July 2007, British Council

1. Citations according to Google Scholar: 1385

2. H-index (Google Scholar): 18
3. i10-index (Google Scholar): 34

• Defence Science and Technology Group Australia grant: Autonomous Mine Counter Measures, coordinator: Prof. Karl Sammut, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 2020, 2023, AUS$ 1Mi
• Defence Science and Technology Group Australia grant: Design of exploratory artificial intelligence systems for interactive sense making in collaboration with human decision makers in high risk, time critical naval environments, coordinator: Prof. Giselle Rampersad, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, Mar 2020, Oct 2020, AUS$ 130K
• FAPESP-IBM grant: Representing and solving complex spatial puzzles, coordinator: Paulo Santos, 2016, 2018, AUS$ 200K
• CNPq grant: Spatial Reasoning for multiple robots, coordinator: Paulo Santos, 2013, 2016, AUS$ 50K
• Santander Ibero-American Young Investigators grant (joint project with Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna, Spain), coordinator: Paulo Santos, 2014, AUS$ 20K
• FAPESP grant: Collaborative Spatial Reasoning, coordinator: Paulo Santos, 2012, 2014, AUS$ 200K
• Joint funding from FAPESP, CNPq and CAPES for the organisation of the international workshop SHAPES 2.0 - The Shape of Things, Rio de Janeiro, coordinator: Paulo Santos, Rio de Janeiro, 2012, AUS$ 80K
• FAPESP grant: Probabilistic Logic: theoretical foundations and computational applications, coordinator: Marcelo Finger, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 2009, 2011, AUS$ 500K
• British Council International Exchange grant (joint project with Hannah Dee, University of Leeds, UK), coordinator: Hannah Dee, Leeds University, Leeds, UK, 2007, AUS$ 20K

• British Computer Science Machine Intelligence prize, 2004, Eletrolux
• Honour et meritus, Santander Prize for Science and Innovation, 2006, S. Paulo, Brazil

This is a list of selected publications, the complete list can be found on my Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DBxdqQ8AAAAJ&hl=en

• Journal, Cortes, H.M., Santos, P.E., da Silva Filho, J. I., Cubic Paraconsistent Analysers with Evidence Filter and Temporal Analysis, Expert Systems with Applications, 230, 2023
• Journal, Domingos, L.C.F.; Santos, P.E.; Skelton,P.S.M.; Brinkworth R.S.A. and Sammut, K. "An Investigation of Preprocessing Filters and Deep Learning Methods for Vessel Type Classification With Underwater Acoustic Data,", IEEE Access, 10, 117582-117596, 2022, 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3220265
• Journal, Ferreira, L.A.; De Rizzo Meneghetti, D.; Lopes, M.; Santos, P.E.. CAPTION: Caption Analysis with Proposed Terms, Image of Objects, and Natural Language Processing, SN Computer Science, 3, 5, 1-16
• Journal, Domingos, L.C.F.; Santos, P.E.; Skelton,P.S.M.; Brinkworth R.S.A. and Sammut, K. A survey of underwater acoustic data classification methods using deep learning for shoreline surveillance, Sensors, 22, 6, 2181
• Journal, Cˆortes, H.M.; Santos, P.E.; da Silva Filho, J.I. Monitoring electrical systems data-network equipment by means of Fuzzy and Paraconsistent Annotated Logic, Expert Systems with Applications, 187, 2022
• Journal, Perico, D. H.; Santos,P. E.; Bianchi, R. A. C. Guided navigation from multiple viewpoints using qualitative spatial reasoning, Spatial Cognition & Computation, 21, 2, 143-172, 2021
• Journal, Homem, T.P.D.; Santos, P.E.; Reali Costa, A.H.; Bianchi, R.A.C; Lopez de Mantaras, R. Qualitative case-based reasoning and learning, Artificial Intelligence, 283, 2020
• Journal, Rodrigues, E.J.; Santos, P.E.; Lopes, M.; Bennett, B.; Oppenheimer, P. Standpoint semantics for polysemy in spatial prepositions, Journal of Logic and Computation, 30, 2, 635-661, 2020
• Journal, Santos, P.E.; Cabalar, P.; Casati, R. The knowledge of knots: an interdisciplinary literature review, Spatial Cognition and Computation, 19, 4, 334-358, 2019
• Journal, Bianchi, R.A.C.; Santos, P.E.; da Silva, I.J. et al. Heuristically Accelerated Reinforcement Learning by Means of Case-Based Reasoning and Transfer Learning, J Intell Robot Syst, 91, 301-312, 2018
• Journal, Homem, Thiago P. D. ; Perico, D. H. ; Santos, Paulo E. ; Bianchi ; De Mantaras, R. L. Retrieving and reusing qualitative cases: an application in humanoid-robot soccer, AI Communications, 30, 251 - 265, 2017
• Journal, Anjoletto, L. ; Bianchi ; Santos, Paulo E, ; De Mantaras, R. L. Answer Set Programming for Non-Stationary Markov Decision Processes, Applied Intelligence, 47, 4, 993-1007, 2017
• Journal, Santos, Paulo E. ; Cavanagh, P. ; Santos, P.E. The Message in the Shadow: noise or knowledge (Dagstuhl Seminar 15192), DAGSTUHL REPORTS, 5, 24-42, 2015
• Journal, Fenelon, V.; Santos, Paulo E. ; Dee, Hannah M. ; Cozman, F. G. Reasoning about shadows in a mobile robot environment, Applied Intelligence, 38, 553-565, 2012
• Journal, Dee, H. M. and Santos, P. E. The perception and content of cast shadows: an interdisciplinary review, Spatial Cognition and Computation, 11, 3, 226-253, 2011
• Journal, Cabalar, P. and Santos, P.E. Formalising the fisherman's folly puzzle, Artificial Intelligence, 175, 1, 346-377, 2011
• Journal, Santos, P.E. ; Thomaz C.E. ; dos Santos, D. ; Freire, R. ; Sato, J. R. ; Louza, M. ; Sallet, P. ; Busatto, G. and Gattaz, W. F. Exploring the knowledge contained in neuroimages: Statistical discriminant analysis and automatic segmentation of the most significant changes, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 49, 2, 105-115, 2010
• Journal, Needham, C. ; Santos, P. E. ; Magee, D. ; Devin, V. ; Hogg, D. and Cohn, A. G. Protocols from Perceptual Observations, Artificial Intelligence, 167, 1-2, 103-136, 2005