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).

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Marina Alexandra Pedro Andrade is an Assistant Professor at Department of Mathematic, ISCTE-IUL Lisbon, Portugal. She has a PhD in Statistics and Data Analysis, an MSc in Probability and Statistics and graduated Applied Mathematics- Probability and Statistics. She is a Researcher at ISTAR – IUL (Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center – University Institute of Lisbon) and has authored or co-authored several technical papers and reports.

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.

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.