Faculty
Name | Institution |
| Pedro Henriques Abreu | DEI/CISUC |
| Filipe Araújo | DEI/CISUC |
| Fernando Barros | DEI/CISUC |
| Carlos Lisboa Bento | DEI/CISUC |
| Fernando Boavida | DEI/CISUC |
| Bruno Cabral | DEI/CISUC |
| Alberto J. Cardoso | DEI/CISUC |
| Amilcar Cardoso | DEI/CISUC |
| Jorge Cardoso | DEI/CISUC |
| Paulo de Carvalho | DEI/CISUC |
| Ernesto Costa | DEI/CISUC |
| Paulo Rupino da Cunha | DEI/CISUC |
| Marília Pascoal Curado | DEI/CISUC |
| António Dourado | DEI/CISUC |
| Carlos M. Fonseca | DEI/CISUC |
| Pedro Furtado | DEI/CISUC |
| Paulo Gomes | DEI/CISUC |
| Jorge Henriques | DEI/CISUC |
| Penousal Machado | DEI/CISUC |
| Maria José Marcelino | DEI/CISUC |
| António José Mendes | DEI/CISUC |
| Edmundo Monteiro | DEI/CISUC |
| Rui Pedro Paiva | DEI/CISUC |
| Luís Paquete | DEI/CISUC |
| Pedro Quaresma | DM/CISUC |
| Mário Zenha Rela | DEI/CISUC |
| Bernardete Ribeiro | DEI/CISUC |
| Licínio Roque | DEI/CISUC |
| Luis Moura Silva | DEI/CISUC |
| Jorge Sa Silva | DEI/CISUC |
| César Teixeira | CISUC |
| Marco Vieira | DEI/CISUC |
| João Vilela | DEI/CISUC |
Pedro Henriques Abreu is an Assistant Professor (non-tenure), at DEI, University of Coimbra, Portugal. He got his Informatics Engineering Degree from Porto University in 2006 and a PhD in Soccer Teams Modeling from the Porto University (2011). His interests include (but are not limited to) Artificial Intelligence, Automatic Game Analysis, Tactical Modeling, and Data Mining Techniques Applied to collective sports games. Pedro Abreu is the author of more than forty publications in international conferences and journals. |
Filipe Araujo
is an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra. He received his
graduation in Electrical Engineering in 1996 and his M. Sc. in
Informatics Engineering in 1999, both from the University of Coimbra. He
received his PhD in 2006 from the University of Lisboa. He joined the
University of Coimbra in 2006. He participated in several national and
international projects. His current research interests are focused on
Grid and parallel computing, peer-to-peer systems, mobile computing and
security. Homepage |
Fernando Barros
is an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra. His research
work includes Software Reuse, Dynamic Topology Systems, and Theory of
Modeling and Simulation. Fernando Barros works on the software reuse
Project funded by FCT : PTDC/EIA-EIA/100752/2008, "A Modular and
Hierarchical Approach to Software Reuse". Homepage |
Carlos Lisboa Bento
is an Aggregated Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra. His
research along the last years is in the convergence between Artificial
Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing. He has projects in the areas of
Intelligent Transport Systems and Energy Sustainability for Smarter
Cities. Carlos is PI of the CityMotion project (real time fusion of
mobility data), integrated in the MITPortugal Program, coordinates a
large national project in the area of Intelligent Transport Systems
TICE.Mobility, and project CROWDS - a three year research project
funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. He has about 100
international publications. He is the founder and |
Fernando Boavida holds a PhD in Informatics Engineering, and is Full Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering (DEI) of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra. He is the founder of the Laboratory of Communications and Telematics (LCT) of DEI and the Strategic Director for Communications and Information Technology of the University of Coimbra. His main research interests are mobility and nomadicity, content networks, quality of service, and wireless sensor networks. He is author/co-author of more than 150 international publications and 50 national publications. He has been involved in numerous program committees of major international conferences, and has participated in many European projects. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a licensed Professional Engineer. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Computer Communications journal. Homepage |
Bruno Cabral is an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, and an Adjunct Associate Teaching Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, USA. His main research interests are Concurrent Programming and Programming Languages, Exception Handling Models and Code Instrumentation. He is the author of several publications in top-tier peer reviewed conferences and journals in topics related with concurrency and programming languages, such as language support for software transactional memory, automatic exception handling models, and run-time instrumentation and optimization of code. He has participated in many research and software projects in cooperation with institutions such as the European Space Agency, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Portuguese Government. Bruno is currently in charge of the creation of the Institute for Software Engineering at the University of Coimbra. Homepage |
Alberto J. Cardoso
received his PhD in Informatics Eng. in 2006 from the University of
Coimbra and is Assistant Professor at the Dep. of Informatics of the
same University and senior researcher of the Adaptive Computation Group
of the Centre for Informatics and Systems. His main research interests
are Remote and Virtual Laboratories, Intelligent Tutoring Systems,
Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensor Data Fusion, Soft Computing,
Supervision and Fault Diagnosis, Reconfiguration and Fault Tolerant
Control. He published one book chapter and several papers in
international journals and conference proceedings. He co-coordinated the
project Experiment@Portugal (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2010 -
Innovative Projects in Education Domain) and participated in several EU
projects (FP7-ICT-2007.3.7 GINSENG - Performance Control in Wireless
Sensor Networks). Homepage |
Amílcar Cardoso holds
a PhD in Informatics Engineering,and is a Full Professor at the
University of Coimbra, where he teaches Artificial Intelligence,
Computational Creativity, Programming for Design and other topics. He is
the coordinator of the Cognitive and Media Systems Group (CMS). |
Jorge Cardoso is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra. His research interests are in the areas of Internet of Services and Service Science (with SAP Research, Germany), IT Services (with SEI/CarnegieMellon, USA), Linking Open Data and Semantic Web (with Knoesis Research Center, USA), and Business Process Management (with the University of Bayreuth and University of Eindhoven). He created and led until 2009 the development of the W3C Unified Service Description Language. Jorge has a PhD from the University of Georgia (USA) and he is a founding member of the IFIP Working Group 12.7 on Social Semantics. |
Paulo de Carvalho is an Associate Professor at DEI-FCTUC. His main research interests are adaptive computational techniques with application to personalized algorithms for medical applications. These include bio-signals processing and analysis (particularly, cardiac bio-signals such as ECG, heart sounds, ICG, PPG and BP), pattern recognition, modeling, Clinical Informatics and pHealth systems. His publications include several book chapters and over 90 papers in refereed international journals and conferences. He has been involved in several organization and program committees of international conferences. He participated in European initiatives such COSY, Eunite, and international research projects such as MyHeart and HeartCycle. He has served as project coordinator for several national research projects (e.g. FCT, QREN, AdI) as well as team coordinator for several international research projects (FP6 and FP7). |
Ernesto Costa is Full Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, where he concluded his B.Sc. in 1976. He holds a Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France) and a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal). His main research interests are in the areas of Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Complex Systems, Machine Learning, Cognition and Computational Biology. He was co-founder and Head of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC)and founder and Coordinator of the CISUC’s Artificial Intelligence Group and founder of the Evolutionary and Complex Systems group. He participated in several projects and got four best paper awards. He organized several international scientific events and had published over 150 papers in books, journals and proceedings of conferences. He is the member of the editorial board of several journals. Homepage |
Marilia Curado
is assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of
FCTUC and a senior researcher at LCT. Her main research interests are
Routing, Energy-aware Networking, Network Modelling and Performance,
Mobility and Wireless Networks. She has been involved in FP6 EuQoS and
WEIRD IPs and she was the leader of the implementation Work Package of
the WEIRD project. She has also been involved in FP7 GINSENG and MICIE
STREPs. She has several journal and conference publications in the area
of routing, mobility, resilience, and wireless networks resource
management. She has acted as an expert of FP6 and FP7 European project
proposals and is on the editorial board and TPC of journals and
conferences. |
Paulo Rupino is Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra and an Adjunct Associate Teaching Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in Informatics Engineering – Information Systems. His main research interests are Information Systems Design, Quality Management and Information Systems, Business Models and Strategy, and IT governance issues. He is the Vice-President of Instituto Pedro Nunes, an Innovation and Technology Transfer organization providing specialized consulting, training and business incubation. For a period of three years, he was the elected Coordinator of the Informatics Engineering Chapter for the centre region of Portugal of the Portuguese Engineering Association, and for a two year term he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. Homepage |
António Dourado
is a Full Professor at the Department of Informatics – University of
Coimbra, and holds a PhD from the University Paul Sabatier and LAAS du
CNRS, Toulouse, France. He is the Scientific Director of the Soft
Computing and Automation Group of the Centre for Informatics and Systems
of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). He has been and is involved in
national projects (in collaboration with industry) and international
projects at European level (including some Networks of Excellence). He
is author or co-author of more than 200 international publications. His
main research interests include Computational Intelligence, signal
processing, data mining for medical and industrial applications,
real-time learning of fuzzy systems, neural networks, and intelligent
control. He has been the European coordinator of FP7 Epilepsiae Project
researching algorithms for EEG-ECG processing for epileptic seizures
prediction. Homepage |
Carlos M. Fonseca
is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director for Research of the
Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. He
is also the Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme on Information Science
and Technology and a member of the Evolutionary and Complex Systems
Group of the Centre for Informatics and Systems (CISUC). He graduated
in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of
Aveiro in 1991, and obtained his doctoral degree from the University of
Sheffield, U.K., in 1996. He was a Research Associate with the
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering of the
University of Sheffield from 1994 until 1997, and a Lecturer at the
University of Algarve, Faro, from 1997 until 2010. His main research
interests are multicriterion optimisation, evolutionary algorithms,
experimental assessment of algorithms, and dynamical systems. His
contributions in these areas have led to the publication of over 60
articles in international journals, conferences and books. |
Pedro Furtado is an assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, from where he holds a PhD. Pedro carries out research at the Software and Systems Group of CISUC. His interests are Performance, Parallelism, Quality of Service Web design and development, Data Warehousing, Data Mining (DWPA, DBQoS projects) Information Processing in Sensor Networks (European Project Ginseng), Complex Events Processing (CloudZai Project) and Web Development Automation. Homepage |
Paulo Gomes is an Assistant Professor at the Informatics Department of the University of Coimbra since 1997. He received his PhD from the University of Coimbra in 2004. His main research interests are: Semantic Web Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Search, Recommendation, Data/Web/Text Mining and Knowledge Management. He teaches the courses of: Web Semantics, Intelligent Systems for Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence. He has directed and collaborated in more than 15 industry projects (two of them with the European Space Agency) in the areas of Knowledge Management, Information Retrieval, Semantic Search, Semantic Web Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Web Mining and Text Mining. Homepage |
Jorge Henriques
was born in Coimbra, Portugal, in October, 1967. He received the
graduation in Informatics Engineering, the MSc in Systems and
Automation, and the PhD in Informatics Engineering from the University
of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. He is an Assistant Professor of the
Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, since
2001. His current research interests include medical informatics and
personal health care systems, bio-signal processing and analysis, with
application to modeling, diagnosis and decision, in particular within
cardiovascular context. |
Penousal Machado, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra and senior researcher at the Cognitive and Media Systems group of the Centre of Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra. He conducts research in the fields of Nature Inspired Computing, Computational Art and Design, nd Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of more than 50 journal and conference papers and editor the book "The Art of Artificial Evolution", published by Springer. He is member of the editorial board of the "Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications", "Journal of Mathematics and the Arts" and "International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools", chair of several scientific events and member of the Programme Committee of numerous conferences. He is also the recipient of several scientific awards, including the prestigious award for Excellence and Merit in Artificial Intelligence granted by the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence. Recently his work has been featured at Wired Magazine UK and the MoMA exhibition catalogue for “Talk to Me”. Homepage |
Maria José Marcelino is an Assistant professor at the University of Coimbra, from where she also holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering. Her main research interests are simulation and modelling applied to education, computer science education and mLearning and eLearning methodologies. She has been involved in some national and international projects in the field of educational technology. She is also a member of the coordination board of UC_D, a project to promote and develop distance education courses and methodologies at the University of Coimbra. |
António José Mendes
holds a PhD in Informatics Engineering, and is Assistant Professor at
the Department of Informatics Engineering (DEI) of the Faculty of
Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra, where he teaches
Programming courses. His research interests are focused on Computer
Science Education and Technology Enhanced Learning. He develops research
in the Cognitive and Media Systems group of CISUC. He is
author/co-author of more than 100 papers in international journals and
conferences. He currently coordinates the Distance Learning Project of
the University of Coimbra. |
Edmundo Monteiro
is Full Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering (DEI) of
the University of Coimbra (UC), Portugal. He graduated in Electrical
Engineering (Informatics Specialty) from the University of Coimbra, and
received his PhD in Informatics Engineering (Computer Networks) and the
Habilitation from the same university. He is the Coordinator of the
Laboratory of Communications and Telematics of the University of Coimbra
and Director of the Research Centre CISUC. He has more than 25 years of
research and industry experience in the field of Computer Networks, New
Architectures and Protocols, Quality of Service and Quality of
Experience, Routing and Resource Management, New Network Management
Paradigms, Network Security, and Wireless Networks and Protocols. He was
the Director of the Laboratory of Informatics and Systems of the Pedro
Nunes Institute (IPN) from 1997 to 2001. He is still actively involved
in two start-up companies and in consultancy activities in the field of
Communication Systems for large companies and public institutions. |
Rui Pedro Paiva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra and holds a PhD in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra. Rui Pedro is a member of the Cognitive and Media Systems and Adaptive Computation research groups at the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). His main research interests are in the areas of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Medical Informatics. He has coordinated and participated in several projects in the and publishes actively in the main conferences and journals in his areas of research, with a research record of over 45 papers in refereed international journals and conferences. In 2004, his algorithm for melody detection in polyphonic audio won the ISMIR'2004 Audio Description Contest - melody extraction track, the 1st worldwide contest devoted to MIR methods. Homepage |
Luís Paquete is an assistant professor with the Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, since 2007. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, in 2005. His main research interests are design and analysis of algorithms and heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems, with particular emphasis on problems dealing with multiple objectives. Homepage |
Pedro Quaresma is an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics and a researcher in the Centre for Informatics and Systems (CISUC), he is a mathematician with a PhD degree in Computer Science given by the Minho University. His area of expertise is the automated deduction in geometry where, in collaboration with Predrag Janicic and Julien Narboux, as an extensive publication record and with some already developed and implemented systems (e.g. GeoThms (http://hilbert.mat.uc.pt/GeoThms ) and TGTP (http://hilbert.mat.uc.pt/TGTP). |
Mário Zenha Rela is an Assistant professor of software engineering at the University of Coimbra, from where he also holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, and an Adjunct Associate Teaching Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, USA. His main research interests are dependable computing, software reliability and eLearning methodologies. He has been involved in several national and international projects namely with the European Space Agency in the field of software certification. He is also the director of IPNlis, an applied research laboratory created by the University of Coimbra to promote technology transfer to industry. |
Bernardete Ribeiro is Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Informatics Engineering Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra in Portugal. She received a MSc degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Informatics Engineering both from the Informatics Engineering Department, University of Coimbra. She is currently the Program Coordinator of the Bachelor of Informatics Engineering at the Department. She is a founder member of CISUC. Her main publications are in the areas of pattern recognition, computational intelligence and support vector machines and their applications to financial risk, fraud detection, bioinformatics and web mining. Her contributions in these areas have led to the publication of over 200 articles in international journals, conferences and books. She is also a member of ACM and IEEE. |
Licínio Roque obtained a PhD in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra while developing "Context Engineering", a socio-technical approach to information systems development. He teaches studio and project-based courses on Human-Computer Interaction, Game Studies and Development, Organizational Behavior, Knowledge and Innovation, and Information Systems, and advises thesis on Information Systems, HCI, Learning Contexts, Digital Games Research and Socio-Technical Development as part of the PhD program at the University of Coimbra. He also does R&D in diverse forms of participatory media and is co-founder of the startup Tapestry Software that focuses on "media design" by developing multiplayer online game technologies and custom learning and promotional games. Homepage |
Luis Moura Silva is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra. He holds a Ph.D. from the UC and is an active researcher at CISUC, where he is the coordinator of the Software and Systems Engineering group. His main research interests include Dependability, Autonomic Computing, and Large-Scale Internet. Homepage |
Jorge Sá Silva received his PhD in Informatics Engineering in 2001 from the University of Coimbra, where he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology and a Senior Researcher of Laboratory of Communication and Telematics of Centre of Informatics and Systems of University of Coimbra, Portugal. His main research interests are Network Protocols and Wireless Sensor Networks. He has been serving as a reviewer and publishing in top conferences and journals in his expertise areas. He participated in European initiatives and projects such as FP5 E-NET, FP6 NoE E-NEXT, FP6 IP EuQoS, FP6 IP WEIRD and FP7 Ginseng (as Portuguese Leader). He actively participated in the organization of several international conferences and workshops and he was also involved in program committees of national and international conferences. He is a member of IEEE, and he is a licensed Professional Engineer. Homepage |
César Teixeira
received his PhD in Electronic Engineering and Computation in 2008 from
the University of Algarve. In 2009 he was hired by CISUC as a
researcher under the Ciência 2007 program. His main research interest is
the development of improved methods for bio-signal processing applied
to neurological and oncologic diseases. His publication record includes
publications of about 40 articles in national and international journals
and in conference proceedings. He participated in national and
international projects, namely in the European project EPILEPSIAE (FP7 –
211713), where he contributed to significant improvements in the field
of epileptic seizure prediction. Homepage |
Marco Vieira is an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is an expert on dependability and security benchmarking and his research interests also include experimental dependability evaluation, fault injection, robustness testing, software development processes, and software quality assurance, subjects in which he has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in refereed conferences and journals. He has participated in many research projects, both at the national and European level. Marco Vieira has served on program committees of the major conferences of the dependability area and acted as referee for many international conferences and journals in the dependability and databases areas. |
João Vilela is an assistant professor at the
Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. He received
his Masters in Informatics and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of
Porto. His main research interests are in security and privacy of communications
systems, with focus on wireless networks, mobile social networks and
intelligent transportation systems. |