CORPO DOCENTE

PROFESSOR CATEDRÁTICO APOSENTADO
António Costa Dias de Figueiredo
PROFESSORES CATEDRÁTICOS

António Dourado Pereira Correia
Edmundo Heitor Silva Monteiro
Ernesto Jorge Fernandes Costa
Fernando Amílcar Bandeira Cardoso
Fernando Pedro Lopes Boavida Fernandes
Henrique Santos Carmo Madeira
João Gabriel Monteiro Carvalho e Silva
Maria Teresa Ferreira Soares Mendes
PROFESSORES ASSOCIADOS COM AGREGAÇÃO

Bernardete Martins Ribeiro
Carlos Manuel Robalo Lisboa Bento

PROFESSORES ASSOCIADOS

António Jorge Silva Cardoso

António José Nunes Mendes

Carlos Manuel Mira da Fonseca
Luís Alexandre Serras Moura e Silva
Paulo Fernando Pereira Carvalho

PROFESSORES AUXILIARES
Alberto Jorge Lebre Cardoso
Fernando Jorge Penousal Martins Machado
Fernando José Barros Rodrigues Silva
Filipe João Boavida Mendonça Machado Araújo
Francisco Colunas Pereira Câmara Pereira
Jorge Manuel Oliveira Henriques
Jorge Miguel Sá Silva
Licínio Gomes Roque
Luís Miguel Machado Lopes Macedo
Marco Paulo Amorim Vieira
Maria José Patrício Marcelino
Marília Pascoal Curado
Mário Alberto Costa Zenha Rela
Paulo Alexandre Ferreira Simões
Paulo Jorge Pimenta Marques
Paulo Jorge Sousa Gomes
Paulo José Osório Rupino Cunha
Pedro Gustavo Rodrigues Santos Bizarro
Pedro Nuno San-Bento Furtado
Rui Pedro Pinto Carvalho Paiva
PROFESSORES AUXILIARES CONVIDADOS

Alexandre Miguel dos Santos Martins Pinto

Ana Madalena de Sousa Vasconcelos Matos Boavida
António Jorge Costa Granjal
António Manuel Sucena Silveira Gomes
Bruno Miguel Brás Cabral
Carlos Eduardo Delgado Cerqueira
Carlos Nuno Bizarro e Silva Laranjeiro
Daniel Augusto Gama de Castro Silva
Filipe Alexandre  Madeira Rodrigues Neves
João Manuel Frade Belo Bicker
João Paulo da Silva Machado Garcia Vilela

Joel Perdiz Arrais
karen Bennett
Lizá Marie Defossez Ramalho
Luís Filipe Santos Coelho Paquete
Nuno Alexandre Couceiro Pimenta
Nuno Miguel Cabral Carreira Coelho
Paulo Filipe de Jesus Mesquita
Pedro Manuel Henriques da Cunha Abreu
Pedro Miguel Amaral Melo da Cruz
Raul André Brajczewski Barbosa

Tiago Rodrigues Baptista

Tiago José dos Santos Martins da Cruz

ASSISTENTES

Vasco Nuno Sousa Simões Pereira
ASSISTENTES CONVIDADOS

Alcides Miguel Cachulo Aguiar Fonseca
David Fonseca Palma
Eduardo Miguel Morgado Nunes

João Pedro Morais de Matos Moniz Ramos
Luís Filipe Vieira Cordeiro
Pedro Alexandre Malva Correia
Pedro José Mendes Martins
Rui Miguel Lourenço Lopes

MONITORES
Tânia Filipa Santos Marques


ACardoso

Alberto 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
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Apinto

Alexandre Miguel Pinto is an invited assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. He graduated in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon in 2000. After 4 years of professional experience in the IT Consultancy industry (including Data Quality, SAP Consultancy, and ERP-ERP integration), he received the MSc degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence from the New University of Lisbon in 2005; and he holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the New University of Lisbon since 2011. His research interests include, among others, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Computational Logic, Cognitive Science, Semantic Web and Workflow Management Systems. His contributions are published in several international conferences and book chapters. He has also acted as referee for international conferences on Logic Programming and Declarative Languages. He participated in the REWERSE european project as a Member of Working Group I5 - Evolution and Reactivity on the Semantic Web, and in CoLogNet: International Masters Program in Computational Logic: technical setup of the Teleteaching Seminars - Portuguese side. Other interests of Alexandre include Analogical Reasoning, Neural Networks and Computational Neuroscience. Homepage

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amilcar

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).
He developed pioneering work on Computational Creativity in the 90’s, ever since assuming important roles in the area, including: Chair of the Working Group on Computational Creativity of Action COST 282 (2001-2003), co-founder of the series of workshops "Creative Systems" (2001 -2003), member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (2006-present). His research interests also extend to the Affective Computing and Multi-Agent Systems, especially in contexts of creative systems, automatic music composition, social simulation and human-computer confluence. Homepage

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ADourado

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

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AJMendes

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.
Currently he coordinates of the Distance Learning Project of the University of Coimbra.
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Bribeiro

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.

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BCabral

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

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CBento

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
Director of the Ambient Intelligence Lab of CISUC (AmIlab), and  Head of the Laboratory of Informatic Systems at Instituto Pedro Nunes, an institute for technology transfer. Homepage

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CMFonseca

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.
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DanielSilva

Daniel Castro Silva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra. He holds a five-year Degree in Informatics Engineering from the University of Porto (2006), and a PhD in the area of cooperative multi-robot missions, also from the University of Porto (2011). His research interests include multi-agent systems and cooperative missions, but also software engineering and information systems. He is the author of over twenty publications in journals and conferences over the past five years.
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DBaccan


Davi Baccan is an Invited Teaching Assistant at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. He is also a PhD candidate of the Cognitive and Media Systems Group (CMS) research group at the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). Davi holds a MSc in Computer Science from the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA), Brazil. His main research interests include cognitive science, multi-agent systems, computational economics, computational finance, and agent-based computational economics. top

EMonteiro

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.
He participated in many Portuguese and European research projects and initiatives.
His publications include 6 books, several book chapters and journal publications, and over 200 papers in national and international refereed conferences. He is also co-author of 9 international patents. He is member of the Editorial Board of several journals and involved in the organization of many national and international conferences and workshops . Homepage 

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ECosta

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. Ernesto Costa participated in several projects and got four best paper awards. He  was the recipient of the 2009 EvoStar Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Evolutionary Computation. 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

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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

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Boavida

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

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Filipius

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

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Câmara

Francisco Câmara Pereira is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra and a Senior Research Scientist in the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), in Singapore. He holds a PhD in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra. Francisco is a Research Affiliate of the ITSLab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of the Cognitive and Media Systems research group at the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). His PhD was in the topic of Computational Creativity, and he authored one of the first books in the area of Computational Creativity, "Creativity and AI: A Conceptual Blending Approach" as well as several conference and journal publications in related topics. More recently, he has been focused on Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), Machine Learning and Ubiquitous Computing and currently co-leads several research projects in Singapore, together with Profs. Moshe Ben-Akiva and Chris Zegras, from MIT, under the Future Urban Mobility project of SMART. He has also participated in several other projects related to ITS and Machine Learning, namely AIDA (with Senseable City Lab of MIT), CityMotion (MIT-Portugal) and iTEAM (MIT-Portugal). 
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JGabrielSilva


João Gabriel Silva is currently the Rector of the University of Coimbra, where he is full professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology. He graduated in Electrotechnical Engineering in 1980, and received his PhD in Electrotechnical Engineering (Informatics) in 1988. He was Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology from 2006 to 2011. He participated in many Portuguese and European funded research projects. His publications include more than 130 international refereed papers. He directed many industrial projets, among them the first portuguese computer, the Ener 1009, back in 1981-84. His research interests are Software Engineering, Experimental Dependability Evaluation, Low-cost Fault-Tolerance and Dependable Parallel Computing. Homepage
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JPVilela

João Vilela is an assistant professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra and senior researcher at the Laboratory of Communications and Telematics of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra. He received his graduation in computer science and network engineering from the University of Porto in 2005, the M.Sc. in informatics in 2007 and the Ph.D. in computer science in 2011, both from the University of Porto. His main research interests are in the areas of security and privacy of communication
systems, with focus on wireless networks, vehicular networks and mobile social networks. Homepage
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JBicker

João Bicker is a graphic designer, educator, design writer and curator who lives and works in Coimbra, Portugal. With a degree in Biology he furthered his studies in Anthropology, later teaching Social Sciences and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Coimbra. He worked at the Anthropology Museum of the University of Coimbra, developing several projects in the fields of audio-visual arts, museology and graphic design, with particular emphasis on exhibition design and production. He is co-founder and the current creative director of FBA, a graphic design consultancy located in Coimbra, Portugal. At FBA he has developed an extensive body of work as a graphic designer, including art direction and book design for several publishing companies in Portugal and Brazil, as well as supervising several visual identity and exhibition design projects. Bicker holds several international Awards and  is currently an invited  assistant professor at the Multimedia and Design courses of the University of Coimbra.
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JCardoso

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.

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Jorge Granjal

Jorge Granjal is an invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. His research interests include among others, Computer Security, Network Security and Wireless Sensor Networks.

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jh

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.

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SaSilva

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

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lir

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

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LMacedo


Luís Macedo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. He received his PhD in Informatics Engineering in 2007 from the University of Coimbra. He is a member of the Cognitive and Media Systems at the Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra. His research interests lie in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, more precisely in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, affective computing (especially, surprise and curiosity), decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning, computational creativity, selective attention, user modeling, and recommender systems. His publications include over 40 papers. He is the Principal Investigator of a national research project. He is member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). Homepage
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LMSilva

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
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LuisPaquete

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

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MVieira

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.

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Zemar

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.

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Marilia

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.
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mzrela

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.

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NCoelho

Nuno Coelho is a Communication Designer and a Lecturer on the Undergraduate and Master degree courses in Design and Multimedia at the Sciences and Technology Faculty of the University of Coimbra. He's a Researcher at the Centre for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra. He's currently undertaking a PhD on Contemporary Art at Colégio das Artes of the University of Coimbra. He has a Masters in Design and Graphic Production from the Fine Arts School of University of Barcelona, following completion of his degree course in Communication Design and Graphic Art at the Fine Arts School of University of Oporto. As a designer, he has worked for individuals and organizations in Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Palestine, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. He has exhibited his work in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. He is regularly invited as a guest lecturer at academic and public conferences. He gave talks in Australia, Brazil, Greece, Mexico and Portugal.

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NLaranjeiro

Nuno Laranjeiro is an Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He submitted his PhD thesis to the University of Coimbra in January 2012, being currently waiting for the final defense. His research focuses on robust software services and his research interests also include experimental dependability evaluation, fault injection, web services security, and enterprise application integration. He has authored more than 20 papers in refereed conferences and journals in the services computing and dependability areas. Nuno Laranjeiro has participated in national and European research projects and acted as referee for several international conferences and journals in the dependability and services areas. Homepage
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NLourenço

Nuno Lourenço is an Invited Teaching Assistant at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. His main research interests are Evolutionary Computation Artificial Intelligence, and Complex Systems. He is also a PhD student of the Evolutionary and Complex Systems (ECOS) group within the Centre for Informatics and System (CISUC).
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Carvalho2

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).

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PGomes


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
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rupino

Paulo Rupino is Assistant Professor of Information Systems and the head of the IS Group at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Adjunct Associate Teaching Professor in the ISRI in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. Director of Informatics and Systems Lab of Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN), a non-profit association for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Paulo holds a Ph.D. (2001) and an M.Sc. (1997) in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra. He has been Visiting Associate at Brunel University, UK, from 2008 to 2010. He has been the Vice-President of the Board of Instituto Pedro Nunes and of IPN-Incubadora, a Business Incubator. 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

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PCorreia

Pedro Correia is an Invited Teaching Assistant at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. His main research interests are design of algorithms and heuristics for combinatorial multi-objective optimization problems. He is also a PhD student of the Evolutionary and Complex Systems (ECOS) group within the Centre of Informatics and Systems (CISUC). top


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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

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PAbreu

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.

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Penousal

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

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RBarbosa



Raul Barbosa is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, and member of the Software and Systems Engineering group at CISUC. In 2004 he graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Coimbra. He holds a Swedish Licentiate degree and a Ph.D. degree from Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden. His main research interests focus on the design of dependable distributed embedded systems, and their assessment by complementing experimental approaches with formal methods.

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RPPaiva

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

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TBaptista

Tiago Baptista is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra since 2010. His main research interests are in the the areas of Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, Complex Systems, Artificial Intelligence for Games, and Movies Special Effects. He is a member of the Evolutionary and Complex Systems research group of the Centre for Informatics and Systems (CISUC). Homepage

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VascoP


Vasco Pereira is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. His main research interests include QoS and performance in Wireless Sensor Networks. Homepage

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