Event Chairs

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

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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 >>

Mário Vaz Independent Researcher Portugal

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Received the MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto (UP) in 1984 and 1995. He joined the Faculty of Engineering in 1985 and began his research in experimental mechanics with laser interferometry. He holds the position of Associate Professor at FEUP since 2011.
He was involved in starting the Laboratory of Optics and Experimental Mechanics (LOME) and is head of LOME since 2000. In 1985 he joined INEGI, an interface university institute, created by the mechanical engineering department of the UP to offer service and support to industry. He is also one of the founders of the laborator y of biomechanics at the University of Porto (LABIOMEP). He is the joint holder of 5 patents applications with two of them registered on experimental techniques and measuring devices for biomechanics. In 2009 he was elected president of the Portuguese Society of Biomechanics; a position he held until 2013. In 2012 he was elected by the EURASEM board as its vice president. ... More >>

Hesham Ali University of Nebraska at Omaha United States

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Hesham H. Ali is a Professor of Computer Science and the director of the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) Bioinformatics Core Facility. He served as the Lee and Wilma Seemann Distinguished Dean of the College of Information Science and Technology at UNO between 2006 and 2021. He has published numerous articles in various IT areas, including scheduling, distributed systems, data analytics, wireless networks, and Bioinformatics. He has been serving as the PI or Co-PI of several projects funded by NSF, NIH and Nebraska Research Initiative in the areas of data analytics, wireless networks and Bioinformatics. He has also been leading a Research Group that focuses on developing innovative computational approaches to model complex biomedical systems and analyze big bioinformatics data. ... More >>

Maria Claudia Ferrari Castro Centro Universitário FEI Brazil http://fei.edu.br/~mclaudia/

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Maria Claudia F. Castro is an Electrical Engineering and PhD in Biomedical Engineering with emphasis on Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation for hand movement restoration. Currently, she is a Teaching Fellow at Centro Universitário da FEI, Brazil, extending her research areas in Human Machine Interfaces development using EMG and EEG as control signals.