João M F Rodrigues

Professor João Rodrigues graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1993, obtained his MSc in Systems and Computer Engineering in 1998 and a PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Specialty Computer Science in 2008. In 2021 he completed the Habilitation in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a Coordinator Professor with Habilitation at the Institute of Engineering (ISE) in the University of the Algarve (UAlg), Portugal, where he lectures Curricular Units in the areas of Computer Science and Computer Vision since 1994. João Rodrigues is currently Vice-Rector for Transfer, Innovation and Digital University at UAlg, he was Pro-Rector for Transfer and Innovation at UAlg, Director of the Department of Electrical Engineering at ISE and Director of the Bachelor's Degree in Information and Communication Technology and the Master in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He was an integrated researcher of LARSyS (ISR-LX, from 1998 to 2023), and he is now an integrated researcher of the Research Centre NOVA LINCS - Algarve Branche. João Rodrigues participated in more than 20 nationally or internationally funded scientific projects, some of which were as the coordinator, examples are: WELSAFE.DV: Welcome Safety Device; M5SAR: Mobile Five Senses Augmented Reality System for Museums; SparseCoding: A sparse coding hierarchy for real-time object recognition in complex scenes; PRHOLO: The realistic holographic public relations. He is a co-author of more than 200 scientific publications, belongs to the editorial board of several international journals, as well as organized or belongs to the organization of several special issues in journals, tracks, workshops and international scientific conferences in the area of Computer Science or Computer Vision, examples are: SIACG2011, ICIAR2014, IbPRIA2017, ICCS2019; special tracks every year from 2014 in HCII and from 2019 in ICCS. He is the editor of 5 books and 8 proceedings books on pattern recognition and technology development for human-computer iteration. He concluded 4 PhD thesis supervisions and more than 20 MSc supervisions and now is supervising 4 PhD students. More details at https://bit.ly/3J5cOjj