Sancho Moura Oliveira

Sancho Oliveira

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	21-01-2011
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Networks and Services
Group:	Information Technology - Lx

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Address: IT Branch – ISCTE-IUL
Av.ª das Forças Armadas
Lisboa
1649-026
Tel: +351 210 464 023

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0003-1391-3194

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Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Universidade de Lisboa, 01-01-2008

Expertise Topics

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Academic Activities

2Lecture courses

Programação Concorrente e Distribuída, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Engenharia Informática
Programação Orientada para Objectos, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lic. Engenharia Informática

7Supervision of PhD theses

As Supervisor

Enhancing EEG Motor Imagery Classification with Graph Neural Networks, PhD Student, Hafiz Haris Saleem, Expected conclusion 12-2028
Graph Generation for Electronic Design Automation Based on Graph Neural Network, PhD Student, Muhammad Awais, Expected conclusion 11-2027
Inteligência Artificial e a Robótica na Indústria de Saúde, PhD Student, Elijah Malcolm Graça do Nascimento Vera Cruz, Expected conclusion 09-2027
Facebook Spam Profile Detection And Performance Assessment Of Machine Learning Algorithms, PhD Student, Muhammad Hashim Hameed, Expected conclusion 09-2027

As Co-supervisor

O Impacto Multidimensional da Programação no 1º Ciclo/Ensino Fundamental I em Contextos Educacionais de Portugal e do Brasil, PhD Student, Telma Maria da Silva Xavier, Expected conclusion 01-2029
Securing the Internet of Things through Blockchain Technology Integration, PhD Student, Ammad Aslam, Expected conclusion 12-2027
Engineering Evolutionary Control for Real-world Robotic Systems, PhD Student, Miguel António Frade Duarte, Defended 04-2016

20Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Self-hosted Podcast Library Management System, MSc Student, António João Casado Pereira, Expected conclusion 12-2025
Desenvolvimento de um tutor inteligente para o ensino básico, MSc Student, Inês Consolado, Expected conclusion 12-2025
AI to Informal Caregivers of People Diagnosed with Dementia: Ethical Dilemmas., MSc Student, Madalena Rebelo Jorge, Expected conclusion 12-2025
Deep reinforcement learning based control for Autonomous Vehicles in CARLA, MSc Student, Rafael Filipe Pires, Concluded 07-2025
An Educational Environment for Code Behaviour Inspection, MSc Student, Afonso Maria Pissarra Mendonça Centeno Neves, Concluded 12-2024
Collaborative Code Editing with Continuous Integration, MSc Student, Afonso Pinheiro Sampaio, Concluded 12-2024
Deteção de anomalias em dados de gestão de resíduos em Portugal, MSc Student, João Sérgio Vieira Zolá Ribeiro, Concluded 12-2024
Machine Learning para previsão do Índice Mundial de Felicidade e Qualidade de Vida, MSc Student, José Nascimento da Silva, Concluded 12-2024
Previsão de preços de criptomoedas usando redes neurais LSTM, MSc Student, José Luís Almeida Pereira, Concluded 12-2022
Aprendizagem por Reforço vs Estratégias Evolucionárias em Cenários de Controle de Enxame, MSc Student, Alexandre Filipe Conceição Mendes, Concluded 12-2021
3D swarm flying simulation, MSc Student, Miguel Del Barco Peres Rodrigues, Concluded 12-2021
Using Genetic Algorithms for Real-time Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Games, MSc Student, João David Oliveira Pereira, Concluded 12-2019
Natural Language-Based Human-Robot Control, MSc Student, João Miguel Nunes Bernardo, Concluded 12-2019
Attribute-Value Inference using Deep Neural Networks, MSc Student, Kevin Almeida Ramos, Concluded 12-2019
Control of Robot Swarms Through Natural Language Dialogues to monitor fires in open and unknown spaces, MSc Student, Nuno Miguel Amorim Mendonça, Concluded 12-2019
Evolution of the morphology of a gripper for a robotic arm, MSc Student, Ivo Manuel Caeiro da Silva, Concluded 12-2017
NXTTour: an open source robotic system operated over the internet, MSc Student, João Paulo Ribeiro Alves, Concluded 06-2013

As Co-supervisor

Evolving flocking in embodied agents based on local and global application of Reynolds’ rules, MSc Student, Rita Moreira Parada Ramos, Concluded 07-2019
Cooperative Active Perception, MSc Student, Pedro Sousa Romano, Concluded 01-2018
Swarm Formations, MSc Student, Vasco Costa, Concluded 06-2017

Publications

1Books Chapters

T. R. Rodrigues, M. Duarte, M. F. Figueiró, V.C. Costa, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Overcoming Limited Onboard Sensing in Swarm Robotics through Local Communication, Chapter in, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XX, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2015

13Papers in Journals

A. Aslam, O. Postolache, S. Oliveira, J. M. Dias Pereira, Securing IoT Sensors Using Sharding-Based Blockchain Network Technology Integration: A Systematic Review, Sensors, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 807 - 807, January, 2025,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
E. Cruz, S. Oliveira, A. Correia, Robotics Applications in the Hospital Domain: A Literature Review, Applied System Innovation, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 125 - 125, December, 2024 | BibTex
R. Ramos, S. Oliveira, S. Vieira, A. Christensen, Evolving flocking in embodied agents based on local and global application of Reynolds’ rules, PLoS ONE, Vol. 14, No. 10, pp. e0224376 - e0224376, October, 2019 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
J. Gomes, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, An approach to evolve and exploit repertoires of general robot behaviours, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 265 - 283, December, 2018 | BibTex
C. R. Paio, F. Osório, S. Oliveira, G. M. V. Valenti, N. Guimarães, Architecture In-Play, future challenges, nexus network journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 9 - 23, January, 2018 | BibTex
M. Duarte, J. Gomes, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Evolution of Repertoire-Based Control for Robots With Complex Locomotor Systems, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 314 - 328, June, 2017 | BibTex
F. Silva, M. Duarte, L. C. Correia, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, OPEN ISSUES IN EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS, Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 205 - 236, June, 2016 | Full text (PDF 687 KBs) | BibTex
M. Duarte, V.C. Costa, J. Gomes, T. R. Rodrigues, F. Silva, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Evolution of Collective Behaviors for a Real Swarm of Aquatic Surface Robots, PLoS ONE, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. e0151834 - e0151834, March, 2016 | BibTex
M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Evolution of Hybrid Robotic Controllers for Complex Tasks, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 464 - 484, June, 2015 | Full text (PDF 738 KBs) | BibTex
A.B. Barroso, B.I.E. Ermolaev, M.G. Greco, S. Oliveira, S.I.T. Troyan, Electroweak 2 ---> 2 Amplitudes for Electron Positron Annihilation at Tev Energies, Physical Review D, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 034012 - 034025, February, 2004 | BibTex
S. Oliveira, R. S. Santos, Bounds on the mass of the b′ quark, reexamined, Physical Review D, Vol. 68, No. 9, pp. 093012 - 093018, November, 2003 | BibTex
B.I.E. Ermolaev, S. Oliveira, S.I.T. Troyan, Production of electroweak bosons in e+ e- annihilation at high-energies., Physical Review D, Vol. 66, No. 11, pp. 114018 - 114031, December, 2002 | BibTex
S. Oliveira, LB L. Brücher, R. S. Santos, A.B. Barroso, Electroweak corrections to the top quark decay, Physical Review D, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 017301 - 017304, May, 2001 | BibTex

31Papers in Conferences

M. Awais, S. Oliveira, O. Postolache, MultiSpecGNN: Multi-Scale Spectral Graph Neural Networks for Long-Range Graph Learning, International Conference on Industry 4.0 I4Tech2025, Pune, India, September, 2025 | Full text (PDF 689 KBs) | BibTex
A. Aslam, O. Postolache, S. Oliveira, A Blockchain-based Decentralized Secure Data Aggregation Scheme with ZKP for WSNs, International Conference on Industry 4.0 I4Tech2025, Pune, India, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2025,
| Abstract | BibTex
M. Duarte, J. Gomes, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, EvoRBC: Evolutionary Repertoire-based Control for Robots with Arbitrary Locomotion Complexity, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conf. - GECCO, Denver, United States, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 8, July, 2016 | BibTex
M. Duarte, J. Gomes, V.C. Costa, T. R. Rodrigues, F. Silva, VL Lobo, MM Marques, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Application of Swarm Robotic Systems to Marine Environmental Monitoring, IEEE MTS Oceans Conf., Shanghai, China, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 8, April, 2016 | Full text (PDF 548 KBs) | BibTex
V.C. Costa, M. Duarte, T. R. Rodrigues, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Design and Development of an Inexpensive Aquatic Swarm Robotics System, IEEE MTS Oceans Conf., Shanghai, China, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 8, April, 2016 | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
M. Duarte, J. Gomes, V.C. Costa, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Hybrid Control for a Real Swarm Robotic System in an Intruder Detection Task, European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation EvoStar, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 213 - 230, March, 2016 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
S. Romano, LMMN Nunes, A. Christensen, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, Genome Variations, Iberian Robotics Conference - ROBOT, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 417, pp. 309 - 319, November, 2015,
| Abstract | BibTex
F. J. Velez, A.K.N Nadziejko, A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, T. R. Rodrigues, V.C. Costa, M. Duarte, F. Silva, J. Gomes, Short Paper: Wireless Sensor and Networking Technologies for Swarms of Aquatic Surface Drones, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Boston, MA, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2015,
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F. J. Velez, A.K.N Nadziejko, A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, T. R. Rodrigues, V.C. Costa, M. Duarte, F. Silva, J. Gomes, Experimental Characterization of WSNs Applied to Swarms of Aquatic Surface Drones, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2015,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 206 KBs) | BibTex
T. R. Rodrigues, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Beyond Onboard Sensors in Robotic Swarms: Local Collective Sensing through Situated Communication, International Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART, lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 111 - 118, January, 2015 | BibTex
A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, O. Postolache, J. Oliveira, S. Sargento, P. Santana, LMMN Nunes, F. J. Velez, P. Sebastião, V.C. Costa, M. Duarte, J. Gomes, T. R. Rodrigues, F. Silva, Design of Communication and Control for Swarms of Aquatic Surface Drones, INSTICC International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence ICAART, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 548 - 555, January, 2015 | BibTex
T. R. Rodrigues, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Beyond Onboard Sensors in Robotic Swarms: Local Collective Sensing through Situated Communication, INSTICC International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence ICAART, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 111 - 118, January, 2015 | BibTex
M. Duarte, F. Silva, T. R. Rodrigues, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, JBotEvolver: A Versatile Simulation Platform for Evolutionary Robotics, International Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems - ALIFE, New York, United States, Vol. 14, pp. 1 - 8, July, 2014,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 247 KBs) | BibTex
F. Silva, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, L. C. Correia, A. Christensen, The Case for Engineering the Evolution of Robot Controllers, International Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems - ALIFE, New York, United States, Vol. n/a, pp. n/a - n/a, July, 2014 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Evolution of Hierarchical Controllers for Multirobot Systems, International Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems - ALIFE, New York, United States, Vol. 14, pp. 1 - 8, July, 2014,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 637 KBs) | BibTex
M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Hybrid Control for Large Swarms of Aquatic Drones, International Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems - ALIFE, New York, United States, Vol. 14, pp. 1 - 8, July, 2014,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
T. R. Rodrigues, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, What you choose to see is what you get: an experiment with learnt sensory modulation in a robotic foraging task, European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation EvoStar, Granada, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 789 - 801, May, 2014 | BibTex
J. P. R. Alves, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, NXTTour: an open source robotic system operated over the internet, Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication - OSDOC, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 18 - 23, July, 2013 | BibTex
B Costa, S. Oliveira, LMMN Nunes, Profiling Web Users Preferences with Text Mining Plan2See – dynamic formulation of conceptual groups, CISTI - Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias da Informação, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 73 - 76, June, 2013,
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C. Duque, M. Duarte, M. Ribeiro, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, N.S. Souto, Real Time Control of a Mobile Robot Using Electrooculography, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. 137 - 140, May, 2013,
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P. S. Szczawinski, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Toward Evolved Vision-based Control for a Quadrocopter, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, May, 2013,
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M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors, International Conf. on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Odense, Denmark, Vol. 7426, pp. 249 - 258, August, 2012 | BibTex
M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers, International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems - ERLARS, Montpellier, France, Vol. 1, pp. 49 - 56, August, 2012 | BibTex
M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Hierarchical evolution of robotic controllers for complex tasks, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics ICDL EpiRob, San Diego, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2012 | BibTex
M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers, International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems - ERLARS, Montpellier, France, Vol. 1, pp. 19 - 25, June, 2012 | BibTex
M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Automatic Synthesis of Controllers for Real Robots Based on Preprogrammed Behaviors, International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour SAB, Odense, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 249 - 258, June, 2012 | BibTex
M. Duarte, A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies, Portuguese Conf. on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 153 - 167, October, 2011 | BibTex
M. Duarte, A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, Towards Articial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies, Portuguese Conf. on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol., pp. 153 - 167, September, 2011 | BibTex
S. Oliveira, LMMN Nunes, A. Christensen, An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots, European Conf. on Artificial Life - ECAL, Paris, France, Vol. 1, pp. 605 - 612, August, 2011 | BibTex
S. Oliveira, LMMN Nunes, Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning: Learning Sub-goals and State-Abstraction, Conf. Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação - CISTI, Chaves, Portugal, Vol. II, pp. 245 - 248, June, 2011,
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S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Conillon: A Lightweight Distributed Computing Platform for Desktop Grids, Iberian Conf. on Information Systems and Technologies - CISTI, Chaves, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2011 | BibTex

Projects

Currently running projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
ManagiDiTH	: Master of Managing Digital Transformation in the Health Sector	EU/DIGITAL	01-01-2023	31-12-2026

Closed Projects2

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
CORATAM	Control of Aquatic Drones for Maritime Tasks	FCT	01-04-2014	01-07-2015
SAAS	Remote Piloted Semi-Autonomous Aerial Surveillance System Using Terrestrial Wireless Networks	IT/LA	01-03-2012	01-04-2014

Other Scientific Achievements

2Awards

A. Christensen, M. Duarte, V.C. Costa, T. R. Rodrigues, J. Gomes, F. Silva, S. Oliveira, AAAI Best Robot Video Award, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBrkszUnms8, 01-02-2016
M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Paper of Excellence Award, For the paper "Hierarchical evolution of robotic controllers for complex tasks" at the IEEE ICDL EpiRob Conference, 01-08-2012

2Miscellaneous

F. J. Velez, S. Oliveira, S. Sargento, Seminar on Swarms of Aquatic Drones, Seminars, held on 4th July 2016 in Covilhã, Portugal (12 attendees), 01-07-2016 | Link
F. J. Velez, P. Sebastião, S. Sargento, A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, Workshop on Communications in Swarms of Aquatic Drones, Seminars, held on 21st July 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal (45 attendees), 01-07-2016 | Link

Other Contributions

1Conference Committees

ISCTE-IUL ARCHITECTURE INPLAY: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CHANGEABLE ARCHITECTURES InPlay, Conference co-chair, 2017

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Activities from this researcher fall under the following United Nations Strategic Development Goals (SDGs):

IT Member Profile

Sancho Oliveira

Scientific Achievements

As Supervisor

As Co-supervisor

As Supervisor

As Co-supervisor

Currently running projects1

Closed Projects2