talks

Lectures, workshops and invited presentations:

• Invited lecture on “Resiliência urbana e design computacional:  explorando sistemas generativos, data Science e otimização (Cities, Resilience, and Computational Modeling: Exploring Generative Systems, Data Science, and Optimization in Urban Contexts)” at the 6th ERA BIM Conference, São Paulo, Brazil, 2023.

• Research presentation on "A Computational Workflow for Analyzing Thermal Comfort in Outdoor Spaces: Findings From an Urban Canyon Case Study" at the 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management - CUPUM Conference 2023, Montreal, Canada.

• Invited lecture on “Cities, Resilience, and Computational Modeling: Exploring Generative Systems, Data Science, and Optimization in Urban Contexts” at Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, PA, United States, 2022

• Invited presentation on "Understanding the impact of walkability, population density, and population size on COVID-19 spread: a study of the early contagion in the United States“ at Georgia Tech, GA, United States, 2022

• Invited presentation on "Parametric logic supporting architectural design“ at the O’More College of Architecture and Design, Belmont University, TN, United States, 2022

• Invited presentation on "Modeling the impact of walkability, population density, and population size on COVID-19 spread: a study of the early contagion in the United States“ at the International Symposium on Geospatial Approaches to Combating Covid-19, 30th International Cartographic Conference. Florence, Italy, 2021

• Invited panelist on “Computational Research in Cities, Culture, and Resilience” at World CAAD Ph.D. Workshop. Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, 2021

• Invited lecture on “Algorithmic-parametric urbanism” at  LAMO sessions, Ph.D. program in Urbanism (PROURB). Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2021

• Invited lecture on “Optimizing urban performance: generative approaches to urban fabrics with walkability and transit accessibility” at Architecture and Urbanism specialization course. Unicamp University, Brazil, 2021

• Research lecture on "Urban Design Optimization: Generative Approaches towards Urban Fabrics with Improved Transit Accessibility and Walkability". at the International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Hong Kong, 2021 

• Research presentation on "World Studio: a pedagogical experience using shape grammars and parametric approaches to design in the context of informal settlements". at the 24rd Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi) Conference, Bogota, 2020 

• Keynote speaker: “Understanding the impact of walkability, population density, and population size on covid-19 spreading: a study considering the early contagion in the United States” at Global Architect Builder Awards 2021 E-Edition, 2021

• Invited presentation on “A grammar-based optimization approach for walkable urban fabrics: addressing walkability and infrastructure cost trade-off” at the Workshop on contributions of smart city projects to climate resilience. Hiroshima University, 2020

• Research presentation on “Understanding the impact of urban features on covid-19 spreading” at Stuckeman Center for Design Computing Symposium, Pennsylvania State University, 2020

• Research presentation on “Urban design optimization: a generative approach towards urban fabrics with improved walkability”at Stuckeman Center for Design Computing Symposium, Pennsylvania State University, 2020

• Research presentation on “World studio: a pedagogical experience using shape grammars and parametric approaches to design in the context of informal settlements” at Stuckeman Center for Design Computing Symposium, Pennsylvania State University, 2020

• Invited lecture on “CityMetrics: a (para)metric system for analysis and optimization of urban configurations” at Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, 2020

• Invited presentation on “Book - Digital Techniques Applied to Design Process” at Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, 2019

• Invited presentation on “CityMetrics: a parametric system for analysis and optimization of urban configurations” at the Environment-culture-technology nexus: envisioning future green cities. Workshop organized by University of Portsmouth - Universidade de Brasília - Global Challenges Research Fund, 2019

• Guest lecture on “Cidade para Pessoas (Cities for People)” at the Juiz de Fora City Hall, 2019

• Guest lecture on “Sintaxe Espacial: teoria e prática (Space Syntax: Theory and praxis)” at Federal University of Vicosa, 2019

• Research presentation on "(Para)metric Evaluation of Walkability, Diversity and Density in Low-income Neighborhoods Using the CityMetrics toolbox". at the 37th Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) and 23rd Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi) joint Conference, Porto, 2019 

• Research presentation on "Computational Approach for the Assessment of Transit Oriented Development Principles: A multivariate optimization method for urban planning". at the 34th Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) Conference, Oulu, 2016

• Research presentation on "Multi-Objective Optimization and Transit-Oriented Development: evolutive algorithms in urban planning strategies". at the 20th Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi) Conference, Buenos Aires, 2016 

• Research presentation on "Algorithmic Approach for Transit Oriented Development: Computational Optimization in Sustainable Cities Proposals". at the 31st Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference, Bologna, 2015

• Research presentation on "The appliance of parameterization proposing urban projects: A digital approach for sustainability". at the 29th Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference, Munich, 2013