Lucas N. Ferreira is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), working at the intersections between Artificial Intelligence and Creativity, specifically in Generative AI for Music and Games. Lucas was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) and also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta as part of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Universidade de São Paulo, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Paraná.