About me
Hey! I'm Alexandre Pires, a Ph.D. student at the Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) Group, University of Amsterdam. My work focuses on understanding indirect reciprocity as a mechanism for cooperation under Human-AI hybrid populations. I'm supervised by Fernando P. Santos (SIAS) and Ana Paiva (GAIPS). The focus of my formal education is on Artificial Intelligence, Human Cooperation and Complex Systems, however, I always strive to bring perspectives from various fields, such music, art, history, economics, ecology and more.
Before this, I did my Computer Science and Engineering master's degree at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. My master's thesis was about the adoption patterns of Open-Access science publishing using Evolutionary Game Theory, accompanied by professors Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco.
In addition to my work in computer science, I study jazz piano, video-game development, languages, and more.
This site is a hub for all my projects!
What I'm doing
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Research
My scientific focus is on complex systems, multi-agent systems, game theory and pro-social AI.
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Jazz and Composition
I study jazz performance, composition and arrangement. My main instruments are the piano and saxophone.
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Video-games
I love doing all facets of video-game development, from programming to design to music and art!
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Other activities
I've been doing language learning (currently, JP and IT), poetry, digital art, photography and more!
News
April 5th, 2024 - Zalencentrum van Limmikhof - I gave a small talk about human cooperation and indirect reciprocity to bachelor's students in Computational Social Science from the University of Amsterdam.
March 6th, 2024 - Joint CCSS-UvA Workshop - Together with prof. Fernando Santos, I gave a talk about my work in indirect reciprocity in hybrid populations to researchers at the University of Amsterdam and the Center for Computational Social Science, Kobe University.
