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Dr

Luis Arandas

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BIO

Engineering and Research in Creative AI and Signal Processing.

Practice focuses on design and engineering, adaptive systems and inference-based automation. Previously PhD from the University of Porto and INESC-TEC research centre. Participation in xCoAx (Italy, Germany), ICLI/WAC (Norway), ICCC (Portugal), VAF (Denmark), Artificial Creativity Conference (Sweden), EvoMUSART (Italy) and FILE festival (Brazil). In production has collaborated with entities such as Aardman Animations, Channel 4, Braga Media Arts UNESCO, Criatech, Openfield Creativelab, Decolonising Arts Institute (DeAI, UK), Serralves Museum, Charismatic.AI, Madeira Photography Museum, Supernova Ensemble and occasionally private studios.

 

LLM and Diffusion Engineering, AI Platform Design, Multi-Agent Architectures, AI Systems Development, Computing Networks for Entertainment, Lecturing on Computing, Design with AI.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Lecturer
    University of the Arts London, Creative Computing Institute, London, United Kingdom1 Jan 2025 - present
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    University of the Arts London, Creative Computing Institute, London, United Kingdom1 Feb 2025 - 1 Apr 2025
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    University of the Arts London, Creative Computing Institute, London, United Kingdom1 May 2025 - 31 Jul 2025
  • Guest Lecturer
    Universidade Católica Portuguesa, EA School of Arts, Porto, Portugal1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
  • Integrated Researcher
    INESC TEC, Human-Centered Computing and Information Science Laboratory (2020.07619.BD), Porto, Portugal1 Dec 2020 - 1 Dec 2022
  • Assistant Researcher
    INESC TEC, Sound and Music Computing Laboratory (POCI-01-0145-FEDER031380), Porto, Portugal1 Nov 2019 - 1 Nov 2020

DEGREES

  • PhD: Creative AI and Signal Processing
    University of Porto and Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal1 Jun 2024
  • MSc: Interactive Music and Sound Design
    University of Porto, Portugal1 Jun 2019
  • BSc: Sound and Image
    Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal1 Jun 2017

LANGUAGES

  • Portuguese
    Can read, write and speak
  • English
    Can read, write and speak
  • Spanish; Castilian
    Can read, write and speak

STAFF/STUDENT

  • Staff