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Frederico J.J.B. Santos — PhD candidate at the University of Trieste, using methods from evolutionary computation to design a GPU-native PyTorch framework for neuroevolution. Five peer-reviewed publications, including a Q1 journal article in Applied Soft Computing and papers at CORE A conferences (GECCO, EuroGP, EvoApplications).
Trieste, Italy · [email protected] · ORCID 0000-0003-3589-7877
Education
University of Trieste, Italy
GPU-native PyTorch framework for neuroevolution · GP-evolved PSO velocity rules
NOVA Information Management School, Portugal
GPA 18/20 · thesis adapted for publication in Applied Soft Computing
Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, Portugal
Experience
RADAR-AIM, Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership
Lead WP2 of an EU programme on AI for sustainability — scraped & curated a 300+ course dataset, designed an AI-integration taxonomy, ran keyword-based classification.
CrowdSec
Built a PyTorch research framework for real-time malicious-HTTP detection; benchmarked fastText, RoBERTa and Random Forest classifiers; shipped a CLI for training, evaluation and ONNX export.
A400 — Structural Engineering
Designed an algorithm that automated 90% of rebar layout placement, cutting per-region engineer time from ~20 minutes to under one.
Publications
- NEVO-GSPT: Population-Based Neural Network Evolution Using Inflate and Deflate Operators D. Farinati, F.J.J.B. Santos, L. Vanneschi, M. Castelli EuroGP 2026 · 2026
- Combining Grammatical Evolution with LLM-based Local Search to Improve Interpretability B. Sakallioglu, F.J.J.B. Santos, D. Parra, Y. Qiu, M. Nicolau, L. Trujillo, J.I. Hidalgo EvoApplications 2026 · Best Poster Runner-Up · 2026
- Visualizing the Semantic Space Exploration of Ensemble Methods F.J.J.B. Santos, J. Muñoz Contreras, B. Sakallioglu, D. Melendez, A. Tonda, L. Trujillo GECCO 2026 · 2026
- Learning the Particle Swarm Optimization Velocity Update via Genetic Programming F.J.J.B. Santos, A. De Lorenzo, L. Manzoni, G. Pietropolli GECCO 2025 · 2025
- Neuroevolution with Box Mutation: An Adaptive and Modular Framework for Evolving Deep Neural Networks F.J.J.B. Santos, I. Gonçalves, M. Castelli Applied Soft Computing (Q1) · 2023
Awards & Service
- ├── EvoApplications 2026 — Best Poster Runner-Up (co-author)
- ├── SPECIES Summer School on Evolutionary Computation, Moraira, Spain · 2025
- └── Conference Volunteer · EvoStar 2025 & Ital-IA 2025, Trieste
Languages
- ├── Portuguese — native
- ├── English — fluent
- └── Italian — A1