José Júlio Alferes

José Júlio Alferes is Professor of Computer Science and Dean of NOVA School of Sciences and Technology. He also currently serves as President of the National Consortium of Engineering Schools. In 2012 he was nominated EurAI Fellow (formerly known as ECCAI Fellow). From 2021 to 2022 he was Vice-Rector of NOVA University Lisbon, after being Pro-Rector since 2018, in both cases with the responsibility of Digital Transformation. From 2012 to 2015 he was Director of the Artificial Intelligence Centre of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CENTRIA), one of the two centres that merged to create NOVA LINCS. After doing his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, back in October 1993, and until becoming Associate Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in 2000, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Évora. There, besides teaching and research, I helped with the setting up of a new Computer Science degree, first, and of a Department of Computer Science, afterwards. He was also Head of the Mathematics Department, Director of the Departamental Area of Exact Sciences (between 1995 and 1997), and responsible in Évora for the M.Sc. in Applied Artificial Intelligence (jointly organised by Universidade de Évora and Universidade Nova de Lisboa). His main research interests are within the area of Artificial Intelligence. More specifically, his interests have been focused on Logic Programming, Non-Monotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation, and ModelBased Diagnosis. Recently, a great part of my research work has been directed towards the problem of Knowledge Base Updates and Evolution and Reactivity in the Web this latter topic being the main focus of a working group of EU project Rewerse. He wrote over a hundred papers, and coordinated several projects, on these subjects. He’s also organised conferences and served on editorial boards of journals and programme committees of conferences in these areas.