Daniel Simões Lopes
Biography
Daniel Simões Lopes is a tenured Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor at Técnico Lisboa and an Integrated Researcher at ITI/LARSyS. He is also a Research Collaborator at INESC ID. He holds a degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Lisbon and graduated in computational engineering under the UT Austin|Portugal Program framework. He teaches Computer Graphics (undergraduate) and Virtual Reality (graduate) courses at the educational level. Currently, he co-supervises 5 PhD students and has graduated 35+ master students.
At ITI/LARSyS, he directs the Lab of xReality, which investigates novel XR interfaces with applications in 3D content creation and medical scenarios and improved Computer Graphics techniques to better interact in the Metaverse. He authored 50+ scientific papers at top venues. He also participated in 9 national research projects, being the principal investigator in 2. He is a member of the ACM. His main research interests are collision detection, motion processing, extended reality, and medical interfaces.
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2017
Demo hour Journal Article
In: Interactions, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 8–11, 2017.
On the utility of 3D hand cursors to explore medical volume datasets with a touchless interface Journal Article
In: J. Biomed. Informatics, vol. 72, pp. 140–149, 2017.
VRRRRoom: Virtual Reality for Radiologists in the Reading Room Proceedings Article
In: CHI, pp. 4057–4062, ACM, 2017.
2016
Expeditious illustration of layer-cake models on and above a tactile surface Journal Article
In: Comput. Geosci., vol. 90, pp. 1–9, 2016.
2015
A Survey on Implicit Surface Polygonization Journal Article
In: ACM Comput. Surv., vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 60:1–60:39, 2015.
2013
Tangent vectors to a 3-D surface normal: A geometric tool to find orthogonal vectors based on the Householder transformation Journal Article
In: Comput. Aided Des., vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 683–694, 2013.