Presidente | Luís Filipe Pinto de Almeida Teixeira
Luis F. Teixeira holds a Licenciatura (5-year degree) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2001), an MSc in Computer Networks and Services (2004) and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2009), from Universidade do Porto. Currently he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP), and a researcher at Center for Telecommunications and Multimedia of INESC TEC. Previously he was a researcher at INESC Porto (2001-2008), Visiting Researcher at the University of Victoria (2006), and Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer AICOS (2008-2013). His main research topics are computer vision, machine learning and human-centered computing. Luis F. Teixeira has participated in 9 concluded projects (EU-funded, national and contracts), one of which as co-PI at FEUP. He has co-authored 30+ publications in international journals and conferences, having gathered 470+ citations to his publications. He has also been teaching Computer Vision and multiple other courses for the graduate studies, in particular in the areas of Programming and Software Development. He (co-)supervised or is (co-)supervising 70+ MSc students and 4 PhD students.
Secretário | João Miguel Fernandes Rodrigues
Professor João Rodrigues graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1993, he got his M.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering in 1998 and Ph.D. Electronics and Computer Engineering in 2008 from University of the Algarve (UAlg), Portugal. He is Adjunct Professor at Instituto Superior de Engenharia, also in the UAlg, where he lectures Computer Science and Computer Vision since 1994. He is member of associative laboratory LARSyS (ISR-Lisbon), CIAC research unit and the Associations APRP and ARTECH. He participated in more than 15 financed (4 has PI) scientific projects, and he is co-author more than 150 scientific publications, including books. He is the present director of the Master in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His major research interests lies on computer vision, assistive technologies, human-computer interaction and augmented reality.