João Moura Pires

I graduated in Electrical Engineering at Angola University in 1984 and obtained the equivalence degree at Electrical Engineering from Porto University in the same year. I got the PhD in Computer Science in 2000 at NOVA University Lisbon. I am Associate Professor at Computer Science Department of FCT NOVA from 2020. I supervised 5 PhD students (2 of them in co-supervision) , and more than 50 MSc. students. I participated in more than 10 Research Projects. I published more than 75 papers in conferences and journals on topics Spatial-Temporal Systems, Decision Support Systems, Data Mining, Visual analytics, Geographic Visualization and Information Visualization, Remote Sensing and Machine Learning. I regularly serves as PC member of the top conferences. The general research problem that I am addressing is to extend the human's analytical capabilities by the means of computer systems. That requires to address issues on data collection, data models, data mining, data and information visualization and human interaction. With huge amounts of spatiotemporal data this research problem is very challenging and more and more relevant. The actual application fields are using processing remote and field data for agricultural and forestry applications. Recent projects includes: Floresta Limpa: automatic and participatory surveillance of forest fire protection zones (2021-2024); MIMU: Prospecting for geo-referenced information from multiple sources and modalities (2018 - 2021); FitoAgro: study the life cycles of new pests and emerging diseases (Jan 2018-Dec 2020).