Associate Professor - with a Habilitation in Information Science and Technology - in the Department of Information Science and Technology (DCTI-ISTA). Degree in Information Systems and Computer Engineering (5 years course). MD and Ph.D. in Social Psychology. Researcher at Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center (ISTAR-IUL). Involved in projects related to applied computing, gamification, technology acceptance, cybercultures, information society, information systems, technologies and education, adolescence, childhood, music, education and learning, suicide prevention, virtual communities, gaming, and social networks. Member of some scientific Associations, such as the Centre for Studies in Suicide and the Portuguese Society of Suicidology. In short, he focuses his work on data science and applied computing in the study of human behaviour in different contexts. He is also the author of many scientific papers, book chapters, and some books, namely, 'Jogos Sérios - A Arte de Gamificar' (Serious Games - The Art of Gamification), ‘O Desafio da Morte’ (The Challenge of Death), Illusions in the Age of Emotions’, or 'O Desafio da Vida' (The Challenge of Life). He has participated in several scientific events and other actions toward the community. He has also participated in radio programs, has always enjoyed playing sports, and advocates a sustainable world and a healthy life, being vegetarian.
Adolfo Cartaxo was born in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, 1962. He received the degree of "Licenciatura" in Electrical and Computers Engineering, the M. Sc. degree in Telecommunications and Computers, and the Ph. D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1985, 1989 and 1992, respectively, from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), faculty of engineering of Lisbon Technical University. His Ph. D. research work focused on clock recovery circuit optimisation in direct detection optical communications. In 1985, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of IST. In 1992, he became an Assistant Professor, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in January 2002. In September 2016, he joined the Department of Information Science and Technology of ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa as Full Professor. Over those years, he has lectured several courses on Telecommunications, and has been supervisor or co-supervisor of more than 30 M. Sc. theses and 10 Ph. D. theses. He joined the Optical Communications Group of Lisbon site of "Instituto de Telecomunicações" (IT) as a researcher in 1993. He is now a senior researcher conducting research on optical fibre telecommunication systems and networks, and national coordinator of Optical Communications Line in IT. He has been leader of the IST or IT participation in the following projects of the European Union programs on R&D in the optical communications area: project RACE 1051 - Multigigabit transmission in the subscriber loop - (1.10.1989 to 30.9.1990); project RACE 2011 TRAVEL - (HD)TV transport on very high bitrate optical links - (1.1.1992 to 31.12.1995); project ACTS 049 SPEED - Superhighway by photonically and electronically enhanced digital transmission - (1.9.1995 to 31.12.1998); project FP7-2007-IST-1-216785 UCELLS - Ultra-wide band real-time interference monitoring and CELLular management Strategies - (1.1.2008 to 31.12.2010); project FP7-ICT-2009-4-249142 FIVER - Fully-Converged Quintuple-Play Integrated Optical-Wireless Access Architectures - (1.1.2010 to 31.12.2012). He has been leader of the following national projects: project JNICT PBIC 2499/95 TÓPICO - Multigigabit optical transmission using electrical dispersion compensation - (1.1.1996 to 31.12.1997); project POSI/35576/CPS/1999 DWDM/ODC - Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Systems with Optical Dispersion Compensation - (1.10.2000 to 30.09.2004); project POSC/EEA-CPS/56959/2004 SHOTS - Super High-capacity Optical Transmission Systems - (1.4.2005 to 31.12.2007); project PTDC/EEA-TEL/104358/2008 TURBO - Transmission of UltRa wide-Band radio signals over Optical fibre - (1.12.2009 to 31.12.2012); project PTDC/EEI-TEL/2573/2012 MORFEUS - Metro networks based on multi-band ORthogonal FrEquency-division mUltiplexing Signals - (01.04.2013 to 30.09.2015); project AMEN - Analysis and Mitigation of crosstalk Effects in multicore fibre -based Networks - (01.04.2016 to 31.03.2018). In the past years, he has acted as a technical auditor and evaluator for projects included in "Advanced Communications Technologies and Services: european RTD" (ACTS) and "Information Society Technologies" (IST) European Union R&D Programs, and in national R&D Programs. He has served as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Optics Express, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and other journals. He is a member of the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society, and IEEE Senior Member since November 2002. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals (17 as first author) as well as more than 170 international conference papers. He is co-author of two international patents. His main present research interests include fiber optic communication systems and networks.
Ana Maria de Almeida has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, with a specialization in Computer Science. Her research interests include Algorithmics, Complexity, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition, Data Science, Evolutionary Computation, and Ethics for AI and Research. She also has a particular interest in the construction of self-adjusting predictive and reactive models for real applications, as well as in the development of evolutionary and hybrid strategies for tackling multicriteria combinatorial problems.
She participates and has participated in fundamental and applied research projects and research & innovation projects between academia and industry, both at national as well as international levels.
Ana Rita finished her Ph.D. in 2024 in Information Science and Technology (ISCTE-IUL), where she researched AI applied to social media data. She chose Twitter (now X) as a research subject to analyze and extract knowledge from historical data on Portuguese technological startups. Her research focused on extracting marketing knowledge from historical social media data using artificial intelligence approaches like text mining and community detection algorithms. Ana Rita is now an integrated researcher at unit research ISTAR-IUL, interested in applied data science, network science, and natural language processing.
PhD (2009) under the supervision of Kai Koskimies (Tampere University of Technology) e Antónia Lopes (University of Lisbon) in the field of object-oriented frameworks and software product lines.
Currently the research focus is on two main topics:
- Software components and API usability: automated forms of composing and integrating software components (product lines); tool support for using and learning APIs.
- Programming education: pedagogical tools for support teaching and learning of programming; automatic grading systems.
Visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (2014) with the support of CMU-Portugal, hosted by Brad A. Myers.
Visiting researcher at Aalto University (2020), hosted by Lauri Malmi.
Program committee member of the conferences Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (2017-2023) and INFORUM/SOFT-PT (2017-2023).
António Lopes, Licenciate in Computer Science and Business Management (2002, ISCTE), MSc in Computer Engineering and Telecommunications (2006, ISCTE) and a PhD in Information Sciences and Technologies - Artificial Intelligence branch (2011, ISCTE-IUL), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science and Technology of the School of Technologies and Architecture at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. Since 2015, he has been Director of ISCTE's Information Systems Development Services.
His research activities began in 2000 at ADETTI's intelligent systems laboratory, where he participated in various national and international projects until the end of 2008. In January 2009 started his activities as researcher at IT-IUL (the research group of ISCTE-IUL's group at Instituto de Telecomunicações) until October 2025. Currently, he's a full member researcher at ISTAR_Iscte where he focuses on the application of Artificial Intelligence across other research areas.
He is responsible for the Specialisation Seminar in Generative Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Research for training teachers and researchers at ISCTE and coordinator of the course Academic Work with Artificial Intelligence, dedicated to training students in the ethical and responsible use of Generative AI.
António Trigo is an Assistant Professor at ISCTE - IUL (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) and a researcher at ISTAR in the Information Systems group. He has published around 40 articles in scientific journals, authored book chapters and written 3 books. He has also organized events, supervised 50 master's dissertations and co-supervised 30. He works in the areas of Engineering and Technology, with an emphasis on Management Information Systems. In his professional activities, he has interacted with 240 people. In addition to publications, he has actively participated in the academic review process as a reviewer for renowned scientific journals and conferences, and is a member of conference scientific committees and journal editorial boards.
Bráulio Alexandre Barreira Alturas was born in Lisbon in 1964, but has always lived in Queluz, has a PhD in Business Management with a specialization in Marketing (2005), a Master's Degree in Business Sciences with specialization in Management Information Systems (1995) and Degree in Business Organisation and Management(1989), by ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He is currently Associate Professor at the ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Information Science and Technology Department, and researcher at ISTAR-Iscte (Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center). Coordinator of several curricular units of Informatics Applied to Management and Social Sciences and professor in Masters and Postgraduates, as well as a trainer in the area of Organizational Information Systems.
Carlos Coutinho is Assistant Professor at Iscte-IUL, and the R&D Director at the SME Caixa Mágica Software, S.A. in Lisbon, Portugal.
He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, awarded in 2013 by the NOVA University of Lisbon (FCT-NOVA), Portugal. He is responsible for the Cloud Computing area at Iscte-IUL, where he also does research, being area coordinator and Scientific Commission member at ISTAR-IUL, with interests in Enterprise Interoperability, Adaptable Platforms and Systems, SOA, and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). He has more than twenty years of experience teaching the fields of IT at Portuguese universities ISEL, ISCAL, ISGB and Iscte-IUL. He has published 2 book chapters, 9 articles in indexed international scientific journals and more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed international conferences, and is part of the scientific committee of six journals and six yearly international conferences. He was part of the Jury and Main Examiner in the viva voce of four PhD and thirteen MSc.
He holds since 2009 a Project Management Institute PMP title and a post-graduation in Project Management by Instituto Superior Bissaya-Barreto (ISBB) in Coimbra, Portugal. He has more than 25 years of experience as an engineer in the enterprise IT area, working in several fields from ICT, Services, Public Administration and the Aerospace industry, in several multinational projects at CMS and other companies like Alcatel, Siemens and Critical Software. He participated and was the company responsible in multiple European Projects like Athena (FP6), TIMBUS (FP7), C2NET, vf-OS, EFPF (H2020), and TaRDIS (HE), and numerous ESA projects (EGOS, OCDT, SCOS-2000 and Galileo).
Caroline Conti was graduated in Electrical Engineering by University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2010, and received her PhD degree in Information Science and Technology by ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), in June of 2017. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Science and Technology of ISCTE-IUL, and a Senior Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT).
Caroline has been working in the area of light field visual media, making her major contributions to the area of light field content processing, representation, and coding. This was also the subject of her PhD Thesis entitled Efficient Solutions for Light Field Coding. She has more than 10 years of research experience in Portugal and, for this period, she has been participating in many national and international research projects addressing immersive multimedia technologies, where she has actively collaborated with experts from academia and industry in this field. More significantly, she has participated in the European Commission’s project 3D VIVANT (Live Immerse Video-Audio Interactive Multimedia) and has been a research intern at the light field display company Holografika Kft., in Budapest, Hungary. Previous work experience also includes working as a research assistant at IT, and as a lecturer for different courses in Telecommunications and Computer Engineering degrees at ISCTE-IUL. She has also been a member of Organizing Committees of international conferences, more recently, in the 10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing.
Overall, she has contributed more than 30 publications in high Impact Factor journals and in renowned international conferences. She is also author of four book chapters published by Springer. According to Google Scholar, her published work has had more than 600 citations.
Additionally, she has secured many competitive scholarships, including the FCT Stimulus of Scientific Employment 2017 program, in which she ranked in the first place in the Junior Researcher category with maximum score of 10. She has also been recognized with many awards/distinctions in national and international conferences and competitions. More significantly, in 2017, she won the 27th edition of the IBM Scientific Prize, which is arguably the most prestigious prize in Computer Science and related fields of Engineering in Portugal.
Catarina Brites received the E.E., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, in 2003, 2005, and 2011, respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Information Science and Technology at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.
Previously, she has been an Invited Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Instituto Superior Técnico. In the last years, she has also been responsible for co-supervising several M.Sc. theses in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico in the areas of image/video coding, deep learning based image coding, coding and processing of light fields and coding and quality assessment of point clouds. Several of the co-supervised M.Sc. theses have resulted in publications in international peer-reviewed journals (mostly from IEEE) and in renowned international conferences (also peer-reviewed) in the area of multimedia signal processing.
Regarding her scientific activity, she has been developing research activity in the Multimedia Signal Processing Group (MSP-Lx) of Instituto de Telecomunicações. Her current research interests include 2D/3D visual data coding, event data coding, plenoptic imaging (light fields and point clouds) processing and coding, machine learning, visual quality assessment, and multimedia systems. Up to now, she has authored more than 70 international scientific journals and conference research papers and 1 book chapter (bringing together contributions from international experts in the distributed video coding field). According to Google Scholar, her scientific production has more than 3890 citations and her h-index of 30.
Furthermore, over the last years, she is or has been actively involved in several European and National R&D projects in the fields of 2D/3D video coding and analysis, plenoptic image coding and quality assessment, deep learning based image coding and event-based vision data coding, being currently Co-Principal Investigator of one National project.
In parallel to this activity, she has also had intense collaboration with international journal and conferences. She is or has been an Associate Editor of IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF SIGNAL PROCESSING and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING. She is or has been a Member of the Organizing Committee and the Technical Program Committee of several widely known international conferences in the multimedia signal processing field (IEEE, EURASIP, Springer). She is also an active Reviewer for several international scientific journals (IEEE, Elsevier, EURASIP, IET and SPIE) and international conferences (most of them from IEEE). Additionally, she is a Member of the Technical Commission CT-120 - Image, Audio and Multimedia Information Coding and has been a Member of the Young Scientists Seminar of the Lisbon Science Academy.
Catarina Ferreira da Silva, PhD in Informatics (2007), is Associate Professor (2021) with Habilitation in Information Sciences and Technologies (2020), Information Systems at the Department of Information Science and Technology of the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE).
She is the Director of the Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Centre (ISTAR-Iscte) since 2023 and the Director of the Master programme in Information Systems Management (from 2022 till March 2025), currently Subdirector of this same programme till end of 2025, Department of Information Science and Technology of the University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte), Portugal. She is integrated member of the Information Systems group of the research centre ISTAR. She is member of the Expert Panel of the European Blockchain Observatory and Forum, since 2020. The EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum is an initiative sponsored by the European Commission, Directorate-General of Communications Networks, Content & Technology. She was research member of the Information Systems (IS) research group of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC), between 2009-2023 (Portugal). She had the pleasure to co-supervise 5 defended PhD and has the pleasure to co-supervise 3 ongoing PhD students. Between 2013 and September 2019 she was Associate Professor at the Informatics Engineering Department of the Lyon 1 University Institute of Technology La Doua (IUT Doua), Campus LyonTech-La Doua, France. She was also researcher member of the Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) team of the CNRS Laboratory of Informatics on Images and Information Systems (LIRIS UMR 5205) of Lyon, France. She was research assistant, at the University of Coimbra, member of the IS research group of the CISUC between 2009 and 2012. In 2008 and 2009, she was teacher at the Informatics Department of the University of Lyon 1, France and researcher member of the SOC research team of the LIRIS UMR 5205. Between 2004 and 2007, during the preparation of her PhD in Informatics, she worked as researcher at the Information Technology and Knowledge Dissemination Department (Division of Innovation and Services) of the Scientific and Technical Centre for Building (CSTB) at Sophia Antipolis, France. From 2004 to 2006 she was teaching assistant at the Informatics Department of the University Institute of Technology (IUT) of Nice and Sophia-Antipolis, France. She studied at the University of Aveiro, Portugal (pre-Bolonha Engineering degree, 1994-1999), at the University of Coimbra, Portugal (post-graduation, 2001-2002), at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (master's degree - Information Systems, 2002-2003) and at the University of Lyon 1 (PhD in Informatics, 2004-2007).
Elsa Cardoso is an associate professor at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), in the Department of Information Science and Technology of the School of Technology and Architecture, and director of the Master's Degree in Integrated Business Intelligence Systems. She is a researcher at the Information Science, Technology and Architecture Research Center (ISTAR-Iscte) and the Information Systems and Decision Support Group at INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal. She has a PhD (European Doctorate) in Information Sciences and Technologies from ISCTE-IUL, specializing in Business Intelligence. She is co-coordinator of the data visualization area at the DAViD Lab-Iscte (Advanced Data Digitization and Visualization Laboratory) created in February 2025, in collaboration with the Portuguese Mobility and Transportation Institute (IMT). She is a member of the executive committee of the Artificial Intelligence Competence Center for Public Administration (IA>>AP) of the ISCTE CI-CVTT Association.
Her research interests include Business Intelligence & Analytics, data visualization, Data Warehouse, and strategic information systems (Balanced Scorecard) applied to Higher Education, Science and Public Administration.
She is a member of the Business Intelligence Special Interest Group of EUNIS (European University Information Systems organization). She was the leader of this SIG from 2013 until 2019. Since 2022, she is also a member of the Enterprise Architecture SIG of EUNIS, working on capability maturity models for Higher Education. She has participated in several national and international research projects.
She is currently working on the following projects:
xSHARE: Expanding the European EHRxF to share and effectively use health data within the EHDS (101136734 - Horizon-HLTH-2023-IND-06) [2023-2026]
National Programme for Open Science and Open Research Data (PRR). [2024-2026]
Projects already finalized:
Study for the knowledge of fraud in the structural funds in Portugal (POAT-01-6177-FEDER- 000126). Principal Investigator. [2022-2023]
Digital Transformation in Research: Science Management and Open Science (POCI-05-5762-FSE-000438). [2021-2023]
MAIPro – Project Non-compliance Monitoring and Alert (06/POAT/2021). [2022-2023]
IRIS – Summarizing and Informing Decisions: Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques at the Supreme Court of Justice. Researcher, integrating the INESC ID team. [2021-2022]
Healthcare Insight – Units Performance Management (HI-UPM/2014/38567; FEDER-QREN). Principal Investigator from Iscte. [2014-2015]
GRADUA – Graduates Advancement and Development of University capacities in Albania (Erasmus+ project No. 585961-EPP-1-2017-1-AL-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP (2017 -2926/001 -001). [2019-2021]
iLU – Integrative Learning from Urban Data (DSAIPA/DS/0111/2018). Researcher, integrating the INESC ID team. [2018-2022]
IA-Incentivos – Artificial Intelligence in Incentive Management (POCI-05-5762-FSE-000231). [2020-2021]
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Eugénio Ribeiro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science and Technology (ISTA) at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon and a researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa. He obtained his BSc (2010), MSc (2012), and PhD (2023) degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, with his PhD being awarded with distinction and honor. His research interests encompass a broad range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with a primary focus on Natural Language Processing. He has contributed to multiple research projects and authored several publications in international journals and scientific events. He has been recognized for his research and teaching skills through best paper awards, top placements in research challenges, and teaching excellence awards. Additionally, he has been actively involved in organizing scientific events, serving as a reviewer, participating in knowledge-transfer projects, supervising students, and providing training in various contexts.
Fernando Batista received his PhD (2011) in Computer Science and Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). He is currently Associate Professor at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, and integrated researcher at INESC-ID, Lisbon. He is the Executive Coordinator of the Human Language Technologies Scientific Area at INESC-ID (2021-), and member of the Supervisory Board of CVTT - Iscte-Conhecimento e Inovação (since Apr.2021). He was President of the Pedagogical Council of ISCTE-IUL (2017-2019), member of the Permanent Committee of the Pedagogical Council of ISCTE-IUL (2015-2017), and member of the Pedagogical Committee of the ISTA School (2015-2017). He is the scientific coordinator of the AppRecommender (2019-2021) project, has coordinated the INESC-ID team in the SpeDial project (2014-2015), and participated in several other European and National projects. His current research focuses on spoken and written Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Text Mining for social media. He has been member of the organisation team of the LxMLS - Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (since 2016), and was also member of the LxMLS technical staff between (2011-2015). He has participated in the organisation of several scientific events: editorial co-chair of PROPOR 2020, editorial chair of EAMT 2020, web chair of the IPMU 2020, co-chair of the Human-Human languages track of SLATE 2019, co-chair of the demos session in PROPOR 2018, publication chair of IberSPEECH 2016, co-chair of the PROPOR 2016 Student Workshop, publication chair of IberSPEECH 2016, co-chair of the PROPOR 2016 Student Workshop, and handbook chair of EMNLP 2015. He is Senior Member of the IEEE (since 2016), and member of the ISCA Speech (since 2008).
Fernando Brito e Abreu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from IST/UL and is an associate professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies at Iscte-IUL, where he has held various positions such as director of the Master's Degree in Computer Science and Management (MIG), member of Iscte-IUL's Scientific Council representing the ISTAR-IUL Research Unit and responsible for DCTI's internationalization. He was previously an assistant professor in the Department of Informatics at FCT/UNL. He also taught at ISEGI/UNL (now NOVA IMS), IST/UTL, ISEG/UTL, and the Air Force Academy. He was also a guest lecturer at the Département Informatique of the École des Mines de Nantes for a decade, as part of the EMOOSE European master's degree. At these universities, he taught and was responsible for around a dozen subjects in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd cycles. He has supervised more than 30 dissertations, including 10 PhDs, 6 of which have already been completed.
He was a researcher in the Software Engineering Group at INESC Lisboa, in the CITI research center (Center for Informatics and Information Technologies) at FCT/UNL and later was one of the founders of the ISTAR-IUL research unit at Iscte-IUL, where he created and was the 1st coordinator of the Software Systems Engineering group, where he remains today. He promoted the signing of various applied research/technology transfer and/or collaboration protocols between: (i) INESC and the Portuguese Navy, (ii) CS/03 and itSMF Portugal, (iii) NAV EPE and FCT/UNL, (iv) SINFIC and FCT/UNL, (v) Turismo de Portugal and Iscte-IUL and (vi) GEOTA and Iscte-IUL. In addition to the projects funded and developed under these protocols, he has coordinated research teams in various national and international scientific projects.
He has produced more than two hundred scientific and technical texts, including articles in journals such as Empirical Software Engineering, Software Quality Journal, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, Science of Computer Programming, Journal of Systems and Software, IEEE Latin America, Object Expert, Computer Standards & Interfaces, ERCIM News, Personal Computer World, L'Objet, Qualirama, Sistemas de Informação e Interface. His work has been cited nearly 4K times, with an h-index close to 30, according to Google Scholar. He pioneered in Portugal in Empirical Software Engineering with his research group QUASAR (QUantitative Approaches in Software engineering And Reengineering). Among his proposals are the MOOD (Metrics for Object Oriented Design) suite, currently used in the software industry and the Metamodel Driven Measurement (M2DM) approach. The latter allows the abstract formalization of metrics over a domain metamodel using OCL, a constraint specification language that is part of UML. M2DM has been applied in various domains (e.g. object-oriented design, component-based development, business process modeling, IT infrastructure modeling).
He is currently an editor of the Sofware Quality Journal (Springer) and was previously associate editor of Software Quality Professional (American Society for Quality), Portuguese delegate to IFIP TC2 (Software: Theory and Practice), and member of the technical team of the MPS.BR process model, widely used in Brazil. He has been a regular reviewer for various international journals, conferences, and workshops, as well as an evaluator of research projects. He has participated in the organization of national and international scientific events in a wide variety of roles. He was also president of CS/03 (Sectorial Commission for Quality in Information and Communications Technologies), of the Portuguese Quality Institute, from 2000 to 2007, where he was one of the creators of the international QUATIC conference (https://www.quatic.org). In 2021 he was elected Chairman of the QUATIC Series Scientific Steering Committee.
Filipa R. Prudêncio is an Assistant Professor in the DCTI at ISCTE-IUL. Between 2020 and 2024, she was a Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) and in the "Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries" project (USA). She got a Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in Telecommunications, at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and IT, in 2014. As a team member, she contributed to 9 international projects (1 as co-PI). She received the ANACOM-URSI 2023 Award, the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from IST, and the Best Student Paper Award at the URSI conference in 2015.
Francisco Monteiro is Associate Professor in the Dep. of Information Science and Technology at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, and a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and the Licenciatura and MSc degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST, University of Lisbon, where he also became a Teaching Assistant. He held visiting research positions at the Universities of Toronto (Canada), Lancaster (UK), Oulu (Finland), and Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). He has won two best paper prizes awards at IEEE conferences (2004 and 2007), a Young Engineer Prize (3rd place) from the Portuguese Engineers Institution (Ordem dos Engenheiros) in 2002, and for two years in a row was a recipients of Exemplary Reviewer Awards from the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (in 2014 and in 2015). He co-edited the book "MIMO Processing for 4G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Evolution", published by CRC Press in 2014. In 2016 he was the Lead Guest Editor of a special issue on Network Coding of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He was a general chair of ISWCS 2018 - The 15th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, an IEEE major conference in wireless communications.
Isabel Machado Alexandre is an accomplished academic and researcher. She holds a PhD in Computer Studies from the University of Leeds and has been a faculty member at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE) since 2000, where she teaches in the areas of Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence. Her research focuses on AI applications in health and education, and she has led numerous national and international projects, including COST Actions and initiatives like MEM+ for people with Alzheimer.
With over 60 publications, including journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers, she has made significant contributions to her field. She has also held leadership roles, such as Director of the IT-IUL research unit and Coordinator of the Information Technology group. Her teaching excellence is reflected in consistently high student evaluations, and she has supervised multiple master's and doctoral theses.
Her work extends to university management, curriculum development, and promoting scientific culture, demonstrating a strong commitment to academia and research.
Joaquim Esmerado is an Assistant Professor at DCTI. Develops research in the area of Information Systems, Databases, and Data Science. He has published in Q1 magazines such as the International Journal of Information Management and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology. He is an integrated researcher at ISTAR, member of the Information Systems group.
Jorge Louçã obtained in 2000 a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is, since 2000, professor at the ISCTE-IUL Lisbon University Institute, where he teaches Programming Languages and Complex Systems Science. He founded the Doctoral Programmes in Complexity Sciences, joint academic program at ISCTE-IUL and the University of Lisbon. He coordinates The Observatorium research team and his research interests concern modelling complex social systems through intensive data collection and analysis. He is particularly interested by knowledge generation models in large-scale communication networks. He is also concerned by organising the Complex Systems research community, namelly through the annual Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS or CCS). He participated in the creation of the UNESCO Unitwin network for the Complex Systems Digital Campus, involving institutions from Africa, Latin America and Europe.
Jorge R. Costa was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1974. He received the Licenciado and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, in 1997 and 2002, respectively.
He is currently a Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal. He is also a Full Professor at the Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL). His present research interests include dielectric lenses, transmit-arrays, and biomedical antennas. He is the co-author of four patent applications and more than 200 contributions to peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. More than fifty of these papers have appeared in IEEE Journals.
Prof. Costa served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 2010 to 2016 and he was a Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Antennas and Propagation at mm- and Sub mm-Waves”, from the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, April 2013. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation. He was the Co-Chair of the Technical Program Committee of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2015) in Lisbon and General Vice-Chair of EuCAP 2017 in Paris, EuCAP 2021 online and EuCAP 2022 in Madrid. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Jose Andre R. S. Moura received on 19889, the B.Sc., degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), on 2001 the M.Sc. in Computer Networks from Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Portugal), and on 2011 the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Lancaster University (United Kingdom). From 1989 to 2000, he worked as SCADA Engineer at EFACEC Sistemas Electronica (Portugal). From 2000 to 2001, he worked as a researcher at INESC-Porto (Portugal). Since 2001, he has been teaching in computer networks at ISCTE-Instituto Universitario Lisboa (Portugal), and he has been a researcher with Instituto de Telecomunicacoes (Portugal). His current research interests include Network Management, system modeling, Edge Computing, Optimization, Virtualization, Software-Defined Networking, and Resilience on Networked Systems.
José Luís Silva holds a Ph.D. (2012) in Computer Science from the Portuguese MAP-i Consortium (University of Minho, University of Aveiro and University of Porto) and performed a postDoc (2013) at Interactive Critical Systems team, IRIT, University of Toulouse (France). He has been an Assistant Professor (since 2016) at Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) and a member of the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI) research unit (since 2013) of the Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS). He has co-lead (since 2016) the MEROP research team, has participated in national and international research projects (including with Airbus and the European Space Agency), and in the Portuguese contribution to Simulated Mars Missions: AMADEE-20 and AMADEE-24 organized by the Austrian Space Forum. He is member of the, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee, and IFIP TC 13 - Working Group 13.2. His work has been published in prestigious peer-reviewed international journals and conferences such as IEEE Access, Elsevier IJHCS, ACM EICS, ACM IUI, ACM/IEEE HRI and INTERACT. In the past, he was Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Madeira, Visiting Researcher at CMU (USA), a Lecturer at Cávado e Ave Polytechnic Institute, a member of the INESC TEC laboratory, and visiting PhD student at both Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) and Newcastle University (UK). His main research interests lie in Human-Robot Interaction, Interactive Systems and Space Exploration. His main awards and honors include ISCTE-IUL Scientific Awards and a Ph.D. Award from Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge.
José Reis holds a PhD in Information Science and Technology by Iscte-IUL.
Master's degree in Computer Engineering at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias (UNL - FCT), and Bachelor’s degree in electrotechnical engineering (Systems and Communications) at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa.
At present, I am working in software engineering, specifically in software quality.
I am a professor in the scientific area of computer Science, teaching subjects such as, software engineering, decision support systems, project management, information systems, etc.
It was Quality Coordinator and Audit at Universidade Europeia - Laureate International Universities and Deputy direction at Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração de Lisboa. I collaborated with several companies, such as Conhecer Mais II- Consultoria em Tecnologias de Informação, Lda (this company is Business Solution Partner of Microsoft Business Solutions to market education and training in Portugal in developing ERP solutions), ITCODE (development the Zib - An addictive stock market game online learning), DBG (development of school management software), ENSINUS (coordinator of Information Technology Center), INSA-Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge (coordinator facilities Office and Equipment ), ATEC - Training Academy (Consultant / Trainer).
Aerospace Engineer, specialized in avionics. PhD in Telecommunications. MBA and Master of Management Technology and management expert with interests in strategy and finance.
Luís Ducla Soares was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in March 1973. In 1996, he graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Instituto Superior Técnico with a final average of 17 (out of 20). Besides being the best ECE student of 1996, he also received the Alcatel - Prof. Carvalho Fernandes award for the best student in the branch of Telecommunications and Electronics. In 2004, he received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering also from Instituto Superior Técnico. In 2020, he received his Habilitation Degree in Information Sciences and Technologies from the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL).
In 2000, he joined the faculty of the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies of the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), where he is currently Full Professor, having taught until today several subjects in the area of multimedia, signal processing, telecommunications and other related areas. In terms of supervision, he has participated in the successful supervision of 3 PhD Theses and 14 MSc Dissertations, with one of the PhD Theses having received the IBM Scientific Award in 2016. He currently has 1 more PhD These in progress.Besides the teaching activity, he has also played an active role in university management, having already held important positions such as Director of the Engineering Degree in Telecommunications and Computer Engineering, Director of the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies and Member of the General Council of the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL).
In terms of scientific activity, most of his work has been developed at the Multimedia Signal Processing Group (MSP-Lx) of the Instituto de Telecomunicações, where he is currently Senior Researcher. Since 2021, he is the MSP-Lx Group Coordinator. His main areas of scientific work have been image and video processing and coding, including new modalities such as light field-based imaging. More recently, he has become interested in the application of image/video processing techniques to biometric recognition systems and biomedical analysis systems. To date, he has published 25 papers in internationally recognized journals, 6 chapters in books from international publishers, 55 papers in international conference proceedings and 11 papers in national conference proceedings.
Still in the context of his scientific activity, he has also had a very active participation in the work of the ISO/MPEG standardization committee during the development phase of the MPEG-4 visual standard, namely in the part related to error resilience. Furthermore, over the last few years, he actively participated in a total of 14 funded projects (7 European and 7 national), and was Principal Investigator of two national projects.
In parallel with this activity, he served as reviewer for several IEEE, IET and EURASIP journals and conferences. He also participated in the organization of several conferences and special sessions in international conferences, having been the general co-chairman of the International Workshop on Forensics and Biometrics (IWBF) held in Lisbon in March 2013. In addition, he was one of the local representatives of EURASIP, with the role of organizing and coordinating activities at the national level (Local Liaison Officer from 2009 to 2017 and National Representative from 2017 to 2019). In addition, he was also the Chairman of Technical Committee 120, responsible for recommending to the Sector Standardization Body the vote of Portugal regarding ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 standards related to image, audio and multimedia information coding, from 2009 to 2017. Since 2018, he is Associate Editor of the international journal Signal Processing (Q1 in the Web of Science and Scimago databases).
Luís Miguel Martins Nunes, graduated in Computer Science from Faculdade Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (1993), obtained a MSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (1997, thesis supervised by Prof. Luís Borges de Almeida) and a PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (2006, thesis supervised by Prof. Eugénio de Oliveira). Entered in Iscte in 1997 as Teaching Assistant and is currently Associated Professor. Has also contributed as a researcher in the area of Machine Learning in several research units since 1997 (INESC, ADETTI, LIACC, IT and ISTAR) remaining a member of ISTAR to this date.
Maria Pinto-Albuquerque is Assistant Professor at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and researcher at Istar-Iscte.
Her work focuses on the relation of the human, as a user or developer, with the computer system. Addressing this relation leads to work in cybersecurity awareness, alignment of security with usability, and requirements engineering.
She has been developing tools and techniques, like serious games and creativity techniques, to promote an efficient, responsible, and secure use (by the users) and development (by software engineers, co-developing with all types of stakeholders) of computer systems.
She pursues collaborations in particular with Bristol Cybersecurity Group (Univ. of Bristol, UK), UniBW Information Systems Group (University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich), and Security Life Cycle Group of Siemens Technology, Munich. Under collaboration with Bristol Cyber Security Group, she was part of the team that created and developed the cybersecurity awareness game, Decisions and Disruptions, http://www.decisions-disruptions.org/. This game was adapted by the City of London Police and won the UK National Innovation in Cyber Award 2020, https://thenationalcyberawards.org/virtual-awards-ceremony-2020/.
Graduated in Applied Maths. and Comp. Science at Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. She completed the MSc in Computing at Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, and the PhD in Computer Science at Lancaster University, UK. Is a member of IEEE, Iscte Alumni, Lancaster University Alumni, and the British Computer Society.
Nuno David is a professor at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, where he coordinates the courses "Cybersecurity, Ethics, and Privacy" in the Master's in Public Administration, "Professional Ethics, Computing, and Society" in the Master's in Computer Engineering, and "Security, Ethics, and Privacy" in the Bachelor's in Data Science.
He serves as the Data Protection Officer for ISCTE-IUL. Additionally, he is the president of the Ethics Committee of the School of Technology and Architecture and a member of the Ethics Council at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute.
His research interests encompass social simulation, agent-based models, computer ethics, privacy, and data protection. He is also focused on the methodology and philosophy of computer science, the ontology and epistemology of artificial societies and social simulation, and the implications of interdisciplinary computer-based approaches for social theory and social science methodology.
Nuno David graduated in computer science from the University of Coimbra. He earned both his Master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Lisbon, specializing in agent-based social simulation, in collaboration with the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Nuno Guimarães, Full Professor (Professor Catedrático) at ISCTE-IUL, graduated in Electrotechnical Engineering at the Technical University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal, in 1983, where he also completed his MsC (1987) and PhD (1992). He received the title of Agregado em Informática in July 1999, from the University of Lisbon. From 1986 to 1997, he taught at the Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering Department of IST/UTL, and from 1997 to 2012 at the Informatics Department of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. He was Dean of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (2003-2009).
Since 2014 he is Visiting Scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology in Gandhinagar, India. In 2010, he was Invited Professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Institut für Psychologie und Arbeitswissenchaft, Fak V - Verkehrs- und Maschinensysteme. --- From 1982 to 1997, he was a researcher of INESC, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Lisbon, Portugal, and is a member of LASIGE/FCUL since 1997. From 1989 to 1991, he was a consultant for Bell Labs, AT&T, Murray Hill, New Jersey, "Software Systems Principles Research Lab''.
He was a member of Executive Board of PUUG (Portuguese Unix Users Group)(1992-1998), one of the individual founders of Eunet Portugal, later KPNQwest Portugal. From 1996 to 2001, he co-founded of Ergoprocesso (Consulting services), 4VDO - Sistemas e Serviços Multimédia SA (Video indexing services) and OnTV - Sistemas e Serviços de Televisão Interactiva SA (Interactive Television Systems integrator). --- ACM Senior Member (since 2012), Member (Chair of the Board 2021-2025) of ISOC (PT).
Dr. Octavian Adrian Postolache is graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in 1992 and he received the PhD degree in 1999 from the same university, and university habilitation in 2016 from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. In 2000 he became principal researcher of Instituto de Telecomunicações where he is now Senior Researcher. He joined Instituto Universitario de Lisboa/ ISCTE-IUL Lisbon where he is currently Associate Professor. His fields of interests are smart sensors for biomedical, smart ports and environmental applications, pervasive computing, wireless sensor networks, signal processing for biomedical applications and computational intelligence, IoT and data science. He is active member of national and international research teams involved in Portuguese and EU and International projects. Dr. Postolache is author and co-author of 10 patents, 10 books, 18 book chapters, 82 papers in international journals with peer review, more than 270 papers in proceedings of international conferences. He is IEEE Senior Member I&M Society, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE IMS, chair of IEEE I&MSTC-13 Wireless and Telecommunications in Measurements and chair of IEEE IMS Portugal Chapter. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, Sensors MDPI. He was general chair of IEEE MeMeA 2014, IEEE ISSI 2018 and TPC chair of ICST 2014, Liverpool and ICST 2017 in Sydney, ICST2018 in Limerick. He received IEEE best reviewer and the best associate editor in 2011, 2013 and 2017, and other awards related to his research activity in the field of smart sensing and IoT.
Professor Pedro Ramos is Full Professor aof the Department of Science and Information Technology ( DCTI ) at ISCTE Lisbon University Institute . It holds a PhD in Science and Information Technology, Master in Management Information Systems. Between 1999 and 2013 he coordinated masters in the area of Information Systems. Coordinates several IT courses at ISCTE-IUL. Has experience in the development of computer applications to the industry. Regularly participates in funded European projects.
Pedro Santana is Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL and Integrated Researcher at ISTAR-IUL. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Lisbon (2011), the M.Sc. degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence from New University of Lisbon (2005), and the Licenciate degree (5-years B.Sc. degree) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New University of Lisbon (2002).
His research interests include artificial intelligence, robotics, sensor networks, serious games, and human-computer interaction. He has published over 80 articles in international conferences, scientific journals, and book chapters. His research work is often developed in the context of national and european funded projects (FCT, P2020, EU-FP7, EU-FP5, ESA, MDN, QREN).
In the past, he held research positions at the Institute of Telecommunications (2013-2020), at the UNINOVA institute of New University of Lisbon (2011-2013, 2001-2003), at the Agent Modelling Laboratory (LabMAg) of University of Lisbon (2004-2011), and at the robotics and automation company IntRoSys S.A. (2003-2006). He also held teaching assistant positions at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of New University of Lisbon (2010-2012) and at the Department of Informatics of Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (2008-2010).
Ricardo Ribeiro is an Associate Professor at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, since 2020, where he is the coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence scientific area and the director of the Master in Computer Engineering (previously, he was the director of the undergraduate program in Computer Engineering), and a researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa since its creation, working on Human Language Technologies.
He received a Ph.D. (2011) in Information Systems and Computer Engineering and an M.Sc. (2003) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and an undergraduate five year degree (1996) in Mathematics/Computer Science from Universidade da Beira Interior. From 1999 to 2011, he was a Lecturer at Iscte, where he was an Assistant Professor from 2011 to 2020. Since 1996, he has been a researcher at INESC/INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal, working in speech and language processing.
He has participated in several European and Nationally-funded projects. He was the Human Language Technologies INESC-ID team coordinator in RAGE (2015-2019) European-funded project and the principal investigator of a Ministry of National Defence funded project on information extraction from text. He was also one the coordinators of the technology transfer project IRIS, a contract with the Supreme Court of Justice of Portugal.
He has participated in several scientific events, either as organiser or as member of the program committee (IJCAI, ECAI, LREC, Interspeech, ICASSP) and was the editor of a book on the computational processing of Portuguese. He has successfully co-supervised 3 Ph.D. students and more than 70 M.Sc. students.
Ricardo A. Fonseca was born in Lisbon, Portugal on September 11th, 1973. He received his degree in Physics Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico in 1996 and joined the Laser and Plasma Group at this institute. In 2000 he spent one year at the University of California Los Angeles working on the numerical modeling of high-intensity laser-plasma interactions. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Technical University of Lisbon in 2002, on the subject of Laser-Plasma Electron Accelerators. He has published over two hundred papers in leading international scientific journals, that have been cited over 11000 times. In 2003 he took up a permanent position at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. From September 2013 to November 2018 he was the dean for technology at this institute, and he is currently a full professor of physics and electromagnetism.
Rui J. Lopes was born on April 21, 1970 in Lisbon. He graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1993 from Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon where he also obtained a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1996 developing work on simulation of mobile communications systems under the guidance of Professor José Manuel Brázio. In 2005 he obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Lancaster, United Kingdom, as a result of research on distributed multimedia systems supporting the ISO/MPEG-7 standard, under the supervision of Professor David Hutchison. His professional activity has been divided between teaching in the higher education system and research. He started his teaching activity in October 1996 as a 1st triennium Teaching Assistant at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco where he contributed to the start of the Bachelor in Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering. He joined the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies of ISCTE in October 1997 where he is, since January 2021, Associated Professor. He has taught curricular units of the three cycles of studies in different areas mostly in network science, computer networks and network services. He has supervised the work of more than a dozen master theses and five doctoral theses, three of which have already been concluded with the highest classification. In addition to his teaching activity he has contributed significantly to the activity of ISCTE having promoted various internationalization programs (e.g. Erasmus and IAESTE) and was, between January 2018 and September 2020, the director of the doctoral program in Complexity Sciences (taught jointly with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon). His research activity has mostly been developed at the Institute of Telecommunications (IT) and focuses in the study of complex systems and networks with several application areas: from multimedia network systems to social systems. In this context he is particularly interested in the study and characterisation of processes and dynamic mechanisms in multilayer hypernetworks. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic cultural output are: soccer; annotation; mobile application; distributed; crowd-sourcing; Multilevel hypernetworks; Dynamics; Team synergies; Team collective behaviour; Performance analysis; Association football; Complex systems; Networks; Clustering.
Rui Neto Marinheiro graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in 1995 with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Telecommunications and Computers. He obtained his PhD in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, in July 2001.
After returning to Portugal, he began his teaching activity at the Department of Information Science and Technology at the School of Technology and Architecture of Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has an extensive teaching experience and has taught dozens of courses at all levels of education. Currently, he is also the Director of the Degree in Telecommunications and Computer Engineering.
Additionally, he has participated in many continuing education programmes and provided cooperation and consultancy services to other institutions. At Iscte, he has also been involved in academic management activities, such as introducing e-Learning teaching, coordinating the Audio-visual Centre, and managing laboratories. Recently, he has been involved in initiatives that promote and manage mobilities, such as the Erasmus+ program.
Regarding his research, integrated in the Instituto de Telecomunicações, he has participated in many international and national projects as a principal or local investigator. He has also participated in organizing many scientific events and has dozens of international scientific publications in the area of computer networks, including network architectures, mobility and heterogeneous networks, communication architecture and systems for the Internet of things, software defined networks, and medium access control protocols.
Rúben Pereira is an Assistant Professor at ISCTE. He has a PhD in Information Systems from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) where he also graduated as a Master in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. He has been a consultant in several industries, such as: services, banking, telecommunications, Ecommerce, among others. He is the author of several scientific papers, published in conferences / journals / international books, in the area of Information Technology Services Management (ITSM) and Information Technology Governance (ITG). Its areas of scientific interest extend to: Information Technology Risk Management (ITMM), Business Process Management (BPM), continuous improvement and innovation, process optimization, among others. He is also a fan of entrepreneurship, having already been co-founder of three projects, one of them winner of the Startups Factory and finalist in EDP Innovation.
Sérgio Moro (Dr. Habil. in Information Sciences and Technologies) is Full Professor at ISCTE and Dean of the School of Technology and Architecture (since January of 2025).
He was Deputy Director of the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies. He was also (April 2023 - February 2025), Vice-President of the Scientific Council of ISCTE. He was appointed as Honorary Professor of the University of Jordan in March 2024.
Sérgio is an interdisciplinary Data Scientist aiming to unveil patterns of knowledge through data-driven approaches.
His research interests include Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Data Science, and Decision Support Systems applied to real world problems such as Marketing, Banking, and Tourism.
He has published in domains such as Information Systems and Management (e.g., Decision Support Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Information Science), Marketing (e.g., European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Retailing & Consumer Services), Hospitality & Tourism (e.g., Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management), and Applications to Industry (e.g., Telematics and Informatics, Computers in Industry). His portfolio of publications includes a total of 65 peer-reviewed journal publications, from which 67 are ranked in Q1.
He was the first Director of the Master of Data Science at ISCTE from 2020 until 2024, and the first Director of the Bachelor of Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence since 2022 until 2024.
He has worked for 15 years (2001-2016) at Montepio Bank, from which the last 3 and a half as a Business Intelligence and Analytics Project Coordinator, including projects such as Analytical CRM, IRB (internal ratings-based approach to capital requirements for credit risk), ALM (Asset-Liability Management), and GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance).
His academic background includes a 5 year B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon), a M.Sc. in Management Information Systems (ISCTE-IUL), and a Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technologies (ISCTE-IUL).
Sérgio is Associate Editor of Expert Systems, Wiley (Q2) and was member of the Editorial Board of Tourism Management Perspectives (Q1). He has been among the top 2% researchers worldwide since 2020, according to a Scopus-based study (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3).
Tiago Alves received the “Licenciatura” and Ph.D degrees in Electrical and Computers Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He is currently a “Investigador FCT” researcher in the Optical Communications Group of Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon site, Portugal. Since 2018, he is also an Invited Assistant in Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura (ISTA) do ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He has contributed over the last ten years with more than 100 papers to international conferences and journals. He participated in several National and European Projects and has served as an international reviewer in top ranked Letter and Journals in the field of optical communication systems. His current areas of interest are fibre optic communication systems and networks.
Full-time assistant professor with exclusive dedication at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Researcher integrated into ISTAR/ISCTE, and IEEE Senior Member. Has experience in Computer Science, with emphasis on algorithms and distributed systems, working mainly in the following scenarios: Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Communication Protocols, Intelligent Systems and Data Privacy.
Vitor Basto Fernandes graduated in information systems management 1995 (including an internship at Ascom Tech AG - Switzerland), post-graduated in distributed systems in 1997 and got his PhD in informatics in 2006, all from University of Minho (Portugal), where he has also been teaching assistant. He worked at Integral Vision Inc (UK) as software quality engineer in 1996 and was co-founder of PSI-Information Systems Lda (Portugal) in 1997, where he was project manager in B2B e-commerce web based software development. From 2005 he has been lecturing at the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal), and invited assistant professor in the same university in 2007 and 2008. In 2008 he joined the Informatics Engineering Department of Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal) as adjunct professor, where he has been coordinator professor between 2014 and 2016. He coordinated the MSc Program in Mobile Computing from 2010 to 2012, was head of the Research Center in Computer Science and Communications at Polytechnic Institute of Leiria between 2012 and 2016, and researcher in several international projects in the areas of information systems integration, anti-spam filtering and multiobjective optimization, and principal investigator of two funded FCT (the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology) research projects in the areas of research management and research internationalization. He publishes regularly in top-tier journals and conference papers, and organized international events in the areas of his research interests. Vitor Basto-Fernandes is currently associate professor with habilitation at the University Institute of Lisbon.
Adjunct Faculty
Adriano Lopes is Invited Lecturer at Iscte-IUL / Department of Sciences and Information Technologies, and Associate Researcher at ISTAR-IUL.
He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Leeds, UK, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering - Major in Informatics and MSc in Computer Science, both from the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Previously, he was Assistant Professor at Nova University of Lisbon, in the Faculty of Science and Technology/Department of Informatics (FST/DI) and at University of Coimbra, in the Faculty of Science and Technology/Department of Mathematics, Portugal. Alongside teaching and research activities, he held various academic management positions in these institutions. He was also researcher at the research center CITI, hosted by FST/DI.
In the industry, he held management positions in a IT company.
Regarding teaching activities, he taught computer science subjects like Programming, Algorithms and Data Structures, Computer Graphics, User Interfaces, Multimedia, Theory of Computation and Software Engineering.
More recently, he has been teaching Big Data and Data Science related topics, namely Big Data Algorithms and Big Data Processing and Modelling.
Regarding research projects, he has participated in various projects funded by Portuguese FCT, as well as research projects with EU funding. Currently he is participating in the RESETTING (Relauching European smart sustainable tourism models through digitalization and innovative technologies) project funded by EU.
Alessandro Pinheiro holds a degree in Business Administration (4-year pre-Bologna program), a postgraduate diploma in Marketing, a Master's degree in Business Administration, and a PhD in Information Science and Technology. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science and Technology at ISCTE-IUL, and an Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering undergraduate programs at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL) and the Instituto Superior de Tecnologias Avançadas (ISTEC). Passionate about education, he believes in the transformative power of knowledge and is dedicated to promoting learning with enthusiasm and commitment.
Engineer with a degree in Electrical Engineering from ULHT and a Master in Telecommunications Engineering and Computer Science from ISCTE-IUL.
As a final thesis he developed the topic: "Monitoring and analysis of energy consumption in public spaces" with a final grade of 18 (eighteen), elaborated in the IoT Lab of ISCTE-IUL. This project consisted in the development of wireless sensors for monitoring electrical energy, of the system for registering and storing the data provided by the sensors and later analysis of energy consumption. The sensors were installed in electrical panels in the ISCTE-IUL campus in Lisbon, storing the information for future registration in several rooms and departments, with an online platform for visualization for the users to observe the energetic consumptions in real time. Different methods of visualization and perception of consumption were also developed, such as a BIM platform for easier understanding by people without technical knowledge, with the ultimate goal of improving the energy sustainability of ISCTE-IUL.
As professional experiences, even before finishing the degree, I entered the labour market as a Telecommunication Technician in Oni Telecom, S.A., my function covered the analysis of a national telecommunications network and the assistance in the maintenance and correction of anomalies and malfunctions, with the purpose of decreasing the time of communication failures. During this period, I also had the possibility to develop my knowledge in various types of communication technologies used in the contemporary market. After entering the Master I decided to further develop my skills in the fields of engineering and project management. I had the opportunity to do an internship in the company ENGIPROT Serviços de Engenharia, Lda, which develops solutions for protection and control of Medium, High and Very High Voltage electrical networks. My skills in the company consisted in the part of project development and technical development in laboratory and on site. During the internship, I was invited to join the GE Grid Solutions team, where I worked on major projects in the national grid of REN, as well as international projects in ENDE, in Angola. During this period I learned to work with various types of equipment with different purposes, new communication protocols, operation of electrical networks and dedicated telecommunication networks.
Francisco José Rosales Santana Guimarães has a degree in Computer Science from the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon, University of Lisbon (1993), a postgraduate degree in eBusiness from the Superior Institute of Economics and Management (2001), a master's degree in information systems from ISCTE (2006), Postgraduate in Graphic Expression, Color and Image from Universidade Aberta (2006), PhD in Digital Media Art at Universidade do Algarve and Universidade Aberta (2018) and PhD in Enterprise Intelligence at Universidade de Évora (2018). It also has PMI/PMP and ISACA/CGEIT certifications, in addition to advanced certification in Banking Management by the Instituto de Formação Bancária. He is visiting professor at ISCAC in Project Management and Audit since 2013 and visiting professor at ISCTE in Design and Development of Information Systems since 2020. He is president of ISACA Lisbon Chapter 2020-2022. He also has extensive professional experience in the areas of Systems Architecture, Enterprise Architectures, Artifical Intelligence, Business Intelligence and IT Governance & Management.
(2021 - Present) Critical Techworks
Data Engineer
INFORMATION SYSTEMS DIRECTOR (CIO/CTO)
Proven Technical & Management Expertise in a Career Spanning 25+ Years
Business management professional, and technically sophisticated with a solid career, reflecting strong leadership qualifications, highly experience in banking, and CRM. Focused on the business needs, quality, high performance, budget control, client satisfaction, and on the implementation of advanced technology and business solutions.
Ability to manage multiple projects, large teams of direct reports or cross-functional teams with professionalism. Extensive international experience, with a deep understanding of diverse cultural teams and business practices (Luxembourg, France, Netherlands, UK, Switzerland, Brazil, Luxembourg, Dubai, Denmark, and Spain).
Successfully completed numerous IT projects, including core banking systems, digital banking, support and business applications, and data centers, infrastructure implementations, and migration projects. Other implementations have included Siebel-CRM, MIS/OBIEE, multi-router systems, connectivity, and messaging integration with other systems and partners. Strongly committed to deliver large-scale projects, business critical projects on time and under budget with high quality and client satisfaction.
Lecture Strategic Management of Information Systems at ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon –Portugal.
Education & Credentials
• PhD in Computer Sciences, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal – 2016
• Advance Studies in Computer Sciences, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal - 2015
• Master Degree in Information Systems, ISEG, Lisbon, Portugal, 3 years of study – 2007 – 2010
• Postgraduate studies in Information Systems and Technologies for organizations, ISEG – Lisbon, Portugal, 1 year of study – 2006 – 2007
• PAGE – Executive Advance Program in Economics and Business, Catholic University, Lisbon, Portugal, 1 year of study – 1994-1995.
• Degree in Business Computer Science, ISLA, Lisbon, Portugal, 5 years of study – 1984 - 1989
Technical Certifications and acknowledgement:
• ITIL - Foundation Framework for Service Management - 2007
• PMP - Project Management Professional
• COBIT- Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology
• CMMI - Capability Maturity Model Integration
• Accountant, member of Portugal TOC association - 1991
Honors / Awards
2013 IDC CIO Awards – “Product Search Engine”.
2012 IDC CIO Awards – “Gamification of Mutual Funds, a soccer game”.
2011 IDC CIO Awards – “White Label Partner solution for banks”.
2012 Navegantes XXI Awards – ACEPI - Best Site/App Mobile for e-Commerce
2012 Navegantes XXI Awards - ACEPI - Best e-Commerce Site B2B
2011 Navegantes XXI Awards – ACEPI - Best Site/App Mobile for e-Commerce
2009 Oscars for Innovative Cards - SMS Guardian
2007 Global Finance Awards - Best Consumer Internet Bank
2007 Deloitte Investor Relations & Governance Awards - Best Trading Platform
Research / Scientific articles
2017 Gamification to Teach and Assess Financial Education: A Case Study of Self-directed Bank Investors. 2018 Hawaii International Conference on Education has been accepted for presentation (Accepted).
2017 A soccer game in e-business? Playing seriously using e-banking with games characteristics. 2018 International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communication (ICEIC 2018) (Accepted).
2017 Playing, Learning, Investing – a quiz game to improve the financial literacy of bank private investors. (Waiting for publishing).
2017 How game elements and mechanics develop in website influence behavior to use and execute investments in e-banking. (Waiting for publishing).
2017 How does the web game design influence the behavior of e-banking users? (Published by: Elsevier –Computer in Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.04.034)
2016 Playing Seriously - How Gamification and social cues influence bank customers to use gamified e-business applications. (Published by: Elsevier –Computer in Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.063).
2016 Gamification: A framework for designing software in e-banking. (Published by: Elsevier – Computers in Human Behavior (2016), pp. 620-634. DOI information: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.04.035).
2016 Does ease-of-use contributes to the perception of enjoyment? A case of gamification in e-banking. (Published by: Elsevier – Computers in Human Behavior (2016), pp. 114-126. DOI information: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.015).
2014 Gamification in banking: A case study of methodological approach in the software development (Publicado: CAPSI).
2014 Introduction of a game design in e-Banking – thinking of business while playing in a virtual environment (Published by: Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Cyber culture).
2014 Gamification: The importance of users in the development process in e-business (Published by: ACM- Association for Computing Machinery).
2014 The design of the e-banking with game features (Published by: ACM- Association for Computing Machinery).
2013 The adoption of Gamification in e-banking (Published by: ACM- Association for Computing Machinery).
2013 How to develop financial applications with game features in e-banking? (Published by: ACM- Association for Computing Machinery).
Scientific article reviewer:
2016 Future Smart Cities: Overview and Key Challenges. IEEE Potentials
2015 Inadequate Software Testing Can Be Disastrous. IEEE Potentials
2014 Gamification and Service Marketing. SpringerPlus, SpringerOpen Journal.
2016 Elsevier Editorial System for Journal of Systems and Software
2016 Elsevier Editorial System for Computer and Human Behavior
Master degree in Systems Information Management by Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal - School of Business Sciences and Management -Setúbal , Degree in Industrial Management and Technology by Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal - School of Technology of Setubal. He has written chapters, and papers to journals about topics regarding information technology management and strategic change management. He is from the Editorial Board - Associate Editor from International Journal of Business Strategy and Automation (IJBSA). He is the Editor of the book Reviving Businesses with New Organizational Change Management Strategies. His main research interests in information systems management, strategy, knowledge management, change management, and information technology management adoption in business contexts throw models and frameworks. currently doing his doctorate in information sciences and technology. He works as a Professor and a Researcher.
Ricardo Dias, Guest Assistant at ISCTE, is a PhD student in Information Sciences and Technologies. His main research interests include Computer Systems, New Technologies and Teaching Methods and Models adapted to the new school reality.
He has published in areas related to Education (e.g., Journal of Educational & Social Research, 4th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, 3rd International Conference on Human and Social Sciences).
Ricardo has a Degree in Basic Education Teachers, 2nd Cycle variant (ISCE), a Master's in Pedagogical Supervision (ISEC) and is in the second year of his PhD in Information Sciences and Technologies (ISCTE-IUL).
He is a Teacher at the José Afonso School Group, in Loures and Municipal Education Councilor, in the same municipality.
Rodrigo Simões is currently a PhD student at Iscte-IUL and a Research Assistant at ISTAR-IUL. He is an invited assistant professor at Iscte-IUL, teaching the Programming and Big Data Processing courses in the Data Science Degree program. The research plan for his PhD consists of applying software language engineering to urban management/smart city platforms. He is a fellow of the EUROSTIT project, where he will develop a chatbot for consulting information from the RESETTING Smart Tourism Tools and Initiatives observatory. He was a fellow of the European RESETTING project for the digital transformation of tourism. Data visualization was the topic of his master's thesis, focusing on the development of a digital platform for visualizing geo-temporal crowding data, with the aim of helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism sector to mitigate the effects of overtourism. In addition, the platform can be used by municipal authorities for smart city management. Outside of academia, he worked in the software industry for over 3 years as a programmer, contributing to the development and maintenance of several applications for the Agência para a Modernização Administrativa (AMA).