Event Chairs

Ana Fred Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) Portugal

Brief Bio
Ana Fred received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 1989 and 1994, respectively, both from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is a Faculty Member of IST since 1986, where she has been a professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and more recently with the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She is a researcher at the Pattern and Image Analysis Group of the Instituto de Telecomunicações. Her main research areas are on pattern recognition, both structural and statistical approaches, with application to data mining, learning systems, behavioral biometrics, and biomedical applications. She has done pioneering work on clustering, namely on cluster ensemble approaches. Recent work on biosensors hardware (including BITalino – and ECG-based biometrics (Vitalidi project) have been object of several nacional and internacional awards, as well as wide dissemination on international media, constituting a success story of knowledge transfer from research to market. She has published over 160 papers in international refereed conferences, peer reviewed journals, and book chapters. ... More >>

Hugo Gamboa LIBPHYS-UNL / FCT - New University of Lisbon Portugal http://www.plux.info

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Hugo Gamboa founded Plux in 2007 together with 4 other partners and has grown the company from an individual research project to product medical device company with growing international sales and research seeking second round of financing.
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. His thesis entitled "Multi-Modal Behavioral Biometrics Based on HCI and Electrophysiology" presents new behavioral biometrics modalities which are an important contribute for the state-of-the-art in the field.). From 2000 to 2007 he was a Professor at Escola Superio r de Tecnologia de Setúbal, where he taught in the field of Artificial Intelligence. In recognition of his work by the European Biometric Forum, he was among the three finalists of the EBF Biometric Research Award 2007. In 2008 he was the winner of the Portuguese National Award “Futuras Promessas” ISA/Millennium BCP, granted to the best PhD thesis on Physics, Electronics, Informatics or Biomedical Engineering fields. ... More >>

Dirk Elias University of Porto / Fraunhofer Portugal

Brief Bio
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Christian Elias, born in 1966, is currently the president of the executive board of Fraunhofer Portugal (FhP), the director of the Fraunhofer research center for 'Assistive Information and Communication Solutions' (FhP-AICOS) and from May 2008 on invited full professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). From February 2013 on Dirk is also a member of the Scientific Board (Conselho Científico) of FEUP.
He left the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 1992 as Diplom-Ingenieur for
electrical engineering and joined the research institute for Open Communic ation
Systems in Berlin (GMD FOKUS, now Fraunhofer FOKUS).
Between 1992 an 1996 his work focused on multifunctional end systems with direct access to ATM-networks (Asynchronous Transfer Mode).
He received his doctor degree from the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) in computer sciences in 1996.
As deputy director of the FOKUS competence center for advanced technologies and systems between 1996 and 2000 he led the laboratory for Home and Office Technologies (HOT), which has been used as a demonstrator and test bed for many smart home activities of Deutsche Telekom Berkom.
During 1992 and 2000 he participated in various national and international
projects for GMD/FhG, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, Eurescom, and EU.
In 2000 he left GMD/FhG and started IVISTAR AG. IVISTAR was focused on IP-based multi-play products for the organization of open offices and provided later also product development services to Deutsche Telekom and T-Systems for the residential market.
He worked at IVISTAR eight years as CEO and after leaving to Portugal in 2008 one year as chairman of the supervisory board before the company was sold to an Austrian investor. In Portugal Dirk started setting up the Fraunhofer Portugal Research center AICOS from scratch that currently is operating with a team of approximately 85 persons and will grow during 2014 to a size of approximately 100 people. AICOS, being dedicated to applied research for industry, is focusing on solutions for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and ICT for socio-economic development (ICT4D). The center was growing its external project revenues by more than 50% in 2013. Dirk currently is a member of the advisory board of EnergyIN, the Portuguese energy cluster (Pólo de Competitividade e Tecnologia da Energia) and consulted the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ Themenkreis IKT) as well as the headquarters of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft with regards to strategies related to innovation activities in developing countries between 2011-2012. He is the initiator of the FhP-AICOS competence center for ICT4D (ICT4D-CC) that started in 2013. The ICT4D-CC currently operates projects in collaboration with partners from Mozambique, South Africa, Ghana, Liberia, Cameroon and Tanzania. In October 2012 Dirk received the 'Galileo Master 2012' award in the European Satellite Navigation Competition for his work on indoor positioning based on modulated magnetic fields. Precise indoor positioning for mobile phones currently is the main focus of his scientific work and resulted in three patent filings to date. ... More >>

Oscar Pastor Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain http://www.pros.upv.es

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Oscar Pastor is Full Professor and Director of the "Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software (PROS)" at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain). He received his Ph.D. in 1992. He was a researcher at HP Labs, Bristol, UK. He has published more than two hundred research papers in conference proceedings, journals and books, received numerous research grants from public institutions and private industry, and been keynote speaker at several conferences and workshops. Chair of the ER Steering Committee, and member of the SC of conferences as CAiSE, ICWE, CIbSE or RCIS, his research activitie s focus on conceptual modeling, web engineering, requirements engineering, information systems, and model-based software production. He created the object-oriented, formal specification language OASIS and the corresponding software production method OO-METHOD. He led the research and development underlying CARE Technologies that was formed in 1996. CARE Technologies has created an advanced MDA-based Conceptual Model Compiler called OlivaNova, a tool that produces a final software product starting from a conceptual schema that represents system requirements. He is currently leading a multidisciplinary project linking Information Systems and Bioinformatics notions, oriented to designing and implementing tools for Conceptual Modeling-based interpretation of the Human Genome information. ... More >>

Christine Sinoquet University of Nantes France

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Christine Sinoquet is an associate professor in the Knowledge and Decision group at the Computer Science Laboratory of Nantes-Atlantic, University of Nantes, France. Her research interests include motif discovery in biological sequences, comparative genomics, imputation of missing genotypic data and dissecting the genetic susceptibility of complex diseases. She currently serves as the Head of the Master degree program in Bioinformatics of the University of Nantes since 2005.