Luís Paulo Santos is a researcher of the Quantum Software Engineering (QSE) group in the Department of Quantum Materials, Science and Technology at INL, and assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Minho.

His main research interests are high fidelity light transport simulation, with emphasis on global illumination rendering, and parallel processing. In particular, he is interested in exploiting a priori knowledge to reduce the computational workload, exploiting approaches such as classical / Bayesian Monte Carlo integration and compressive sensing. More recently, he became interested in quantum computing and how can this emerging paradigm be leveraged under the context of hyper-dimensional integrals and optimisation problems, such as those present in areas such as light transport and finances.

He is currently the chair of Eurographics Portuguese chapter and member of the Eurographics Executive Committee.

• Roberto Ribeiro, João Barbosa, Luís Paulo Santos
  A Framework for Efficient Execution of Data Parallel Irregular Applications on Heterogeneous Systems
  Parallel Processing Letters, vol. 25(2), June 2015

• Vânio Ferreira, Luís Paulo Santos, Markus Franzen, Omar O. Ghouati, Ricardo Simões
  Improving FEM crash simulation accuracy through local thickness estimation based on CAD data
  Elsevier Advances in Engineering Software; vol. 71, pages 52 – 62, May 2014

• Luis Unzueta, Waldir Pimenta, Jon Goenetxea, Luís Paulo Santos, Fadi Dornaika
  Efficient Generic Face Model Fitting to Images and Videos
  Elsevier Image and Vision Computing, vol. 32(5), pp. 321-334; May, 2014

• Nuno Silva, Luís Paulo Santos
  Interactive High Fidelity Visualization of Complex Materials on the GPU
  Elsevier Computers & Graphics, vol. 37(7), pp. 809-819, November 2013

• R. Marques, C. Bouville, M. Ribardière, L.P. Santos, K. Bouatouch
  Spherical Fibonacci Point Sets for Illumination Integrals
  Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 32 (8), pp. 134-143, 2013