Lucas Ferreira
Assistant Professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolLucas Ferreira is an Assistant Professor and researcher with 12 years of experience at the intersection of AI, creativity, and games, specializing in algorithmic music composition, generative art, and procedural content generation. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz and has blended academic roles at leading institutions (UCSC, University of Alberta, UFMG, UFV) with industry experience in game and mobile development. His current research focuses on controlling neural generative models to compose music with targeted emotions, bridging technical ML methods with artistic outcomes. He has taught generative design and interactive media at both university and pre-collegiate levels, and brings practical ML research experience from a Samsung internship to his pedagogy. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he combines deep technical rigor with a creative practice that produces tools and playable systems rather than purely theoretical artifacts.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzUniversity of São PauloBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Paraná
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
midi8
music7
self-attention4
pytorch2
transformers2
transformer2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lucasnfe/home
Oct 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:77 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
lucasnfe/bardo-composer
May 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:95 commits, 65 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
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