Ricardo Marques

I am currently Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering of Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). I have received my BSc degree in Informatics (2007) and MSc degree in Informatics (2009) from University of Minho, Portugal, after which I worked as a researcher in real-time global illumination in the same university. I joined INRIA, France, as a PhD student in the fall 2010 under the supervision of Professor Kadi Bouatouch, in close collaboration with Dr. Christian Bouville and Professor Luís Paulo Santos. In my PhD thesis, I focused on spherical integration methods applied to light transport simulation. I defended my PhD thesis in the fall 2013 and joined the Mimetic INRIA research team as a research engineer in 2014, where I worked in the field of Crowd Simulation. From fall 2016 to summer 2020 I worked in the GTI group of Professor Josep Blat at Pompeu Fabra University, first supported by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellowship on the topic of Bayesian Monte Carlo Rendering, and then as Lecturer. In June 2020 I joined the Universitat de Barcelona supported by the Serra Húnter Excellence Programme, where I also had the chance to extend my research activities to deep learning methods in collaboration with Professor Petia Radeva. In fall 2024, supported by a Research Consolidation Grant awarded by the Spanish National Research Agency, I joined the Department of Engineering of Pompeu Fabra University to lead its Interactive Technologies Group (GTI).