Tomás Alves
Assistant Researcher at BRU-IUL (Business Research Unit-IUL)
Lisbon Metropolitan Area Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolTomás Alves is an Assistant Researcher and PhD in Computer Science from Instituto Superior Técnico with a decade of experience blending human-computer interaction research, user-centered design, physiological computing and adaptive systems. He co-coordinates the HUMAN Lab at INESC-ID, teaches information visualization and computer graphics, and brings hands-on software skills demonstrated by backend contributions to the popular Space Station 14 open-source game. Known for rigorous academic results (PhD summa cum laude and an MSc with near-perfect grades), he combines experimental research with practical engineering—often instrumenting systems that adapt to users’ cognitive and physiological states. Based in Lisbon, he balances research and teaching with a creative side as a photographer and gastronome, and keeps a long-term goal of authoring a book drawn from his research and life journals.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science and Technology, 18 out of 20, High School, Science and Technology, 18 out of 20 at Colégio MiramarPhD, Computer Science, Approved with honor and distinction (suma cum laude)., PhD, Computer Science, Approved with honor and distinction (suma cum laude). at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (8)
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csharp10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
space-wizards/space-station-14
Feb 2022 - Dec 2023
A multiplayer game about paranoia and chaos on a space station. Remake of the cult-classic Space Station 13.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Tomás primarily contributed to the server-side logic of the game. They fixed bugs, implemented new features, and made improvements to existing functionalities. Their contributions include sanitizing chat messages, preventing actions while sleeping, modifying bible usage, fixing portable flashers, changing biometrics and DNA scrambling after certain events, and fixing a bug with blindness and zooming. The user demonstrated proficiency in C# and interaction with server-side game systems.
chaosgamespace-station-14rpgc-sharp
tomasalves8/4Friends_Exclusivos
Mar 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:14 reviews, 6 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 month
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