Team
Get to know our Researchers
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Our nuclear CVs
Pushing the frontiers of Science and Technology
Our team of researchers possesses a diverse skill set, including expertise in areas such as data science, machine learning, software engineering, electrical engineering, and domain-specific knowledge relevant to each project. We value collaboration, creativity.
Research Groups
Artificial Intelligence
228 total members (95 integrated PhD, 56 collaborating researchers and 77 PhD Students) – 167 men and 61 women.
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Leading researcher: Alípio Mário Guedes Jorge.
Short bio:
I am a full professor at the University of Porto and a researcher at INESC TEC. I am currently the head of the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Science. I have dedicated my research career to machine learning, including inductive logic programming, frequent pattern extraction, recommendation systems, and natural language processing. I currently lead a multidisciplinary team dedicated to Computational Narratives and have been playing leading roles in national and international research and application projects. I launched, with colleagues, several MSc and BSc programs in Data Science and AI. I was a Sherpa for Portugal at the European Commission and responsible for the Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Strategy document.Bioengineering
91 total members (33 integrated PhD, 34 collaborating researchers and 24 PhD Students) – 57 men and 34 women.
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Leading researcher: João Paulo Trigueiros da Silva Cunha.
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I’m Full Professor of Bioengineering & Electrical & Computers Engineering at the University of Porto and senior researcher at INESC TEC. I’m also affiliated with the Portuguese Brain Imaging Network and visiting professor at the Neurology Dep., University of Munich. I serve as Scientific Director of the Carnegie-Mellon | Portugal program since 2014.
I earned a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering, a Ph.D. and an Habilitation (“Agregação”) degree in Electrical Engineering all at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.
I am Senior Member of the IEEE, member of the Editorial Board of NATURE/Scientific Reports. I co-founded several startups, supervised over 15 PhD students, authored 250+ publications, and hold 43 patents.Communications
70 total members (30 integrated PhD, 20 collaborating researchers and 20 PhD Students) – 59 men and 11 women.
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Leading Researcher: Manuel Alberto Pereira Ricardo.
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I have MSc and PhD (2000) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering (EEC), Telecommunications, from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). I am full professor at FEUP where I teach courses on Computer Networks and Mobile Communications. I am the director of the EEC department since 2023. My research is focused on wireless networks including network simulation, QoS, radio resource management, and performance evaluation. I supervised 17 PhD students.Computer Science and Engineering
302 total members (125 integrated PhD, 93 collaborating researchers and 84 PhD Students) – 232 men and 70 women.
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Leading researcher: José Orlando Roque Nascimento Pereira.
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I am a researcher at HASLab and professor at the U. Minho. My research focuses on dependable distributed systems. I am interested mainly in data management, including distributed transaction processing, database replication, polystores, and storage systems, and in group communication, including consensus and gossip-based protocols for large-scale systems. I am also interested in tools for testing, evaluating, and monitoring dependable distributed systems.
Photonics
47 total members (23 integrated PhD, 6 collaborating researchers and 18 PhD Students) – 33 men and 14 women.
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Leading researcher: Paulo Vicente da Silva Marques.
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I am an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Physics and Astronomy Department, FCUP, Porto University. Since October 2009 I am the coordinator of the Center of Applied Photonics of INESCTEC. I am also the Director of the Micro and Nanofabrication Center of Porto University, and a Pró-Director at FCUP.
Recently, I have been working on femtosecond laser micromachining, multiphoton photopolymerization and waveguides fabrication for microfluidics, optofluidics and integrated optics.Power and Energy Systems
143 total members (41 integrated PhD, 73 collaborating researchers and 29 PhD Students) – 119 men and 24 women.
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Leading Researcher: Ricardo Jorge Gomes de Sousa Bento Bessa.
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I received a 5-years degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, an M.Sc. degree in Data Analysis and Decision Support Systems, and a Ph.D. degree in Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Porto. I’ve worked on international projects, such as the European Projects ANEMOS.plus, Smart4RES, AI4REALNET, and international collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory. My research interests include renewable energy, energy analytics, smart grids, and electricity markets.Robotics
139 total members (32 integrated PhD, 56 collaborating researchers and 51 PhD Students) – 118 men and 21 women.
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Leading Researcher: António Paulo Gomes Mendes Moreira.
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Since 2023, I have been a Full Professor at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering- Faculty of Engineering, U.Porto, where I have previously been teaching from 1986. My academic career focuses mainly on automation, control, and robotics with a close relation with national and international projects and contracts (25+ scientific projects and 40+ contracts and technology transfer projects). I have supervised 21 PhD and 66 M.Sc. theses. I was President of the Portuguese Society of Robotics (2011) and President of the Portuguese Association of Automatic Control (2014).Systems Engineering and Management
151 total members (71 integrated PhD, 48 collaborating researchers and 32 PhD Students) – 86 men and 65 women.
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Leading Researcher: Lia Raquel Neto Martins de Lima Patrício.
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I’m an Associate Professor at the University of Porto, and I am the scientific director of the Engineering and Public Policy area of the CMU-Portugal Program. My research focuses on Engagement and Service Design, and Innovation for Service System Transformation. I coordinated the project with the Portuguese Ministry of Health to design the Portuguese Electronic Health Record and served as the Principal Investigator of the Service Design for Innovation Marie Curie – Innovative Training Network. I am also a Global Faculty Member of the Center for Services Leadership, at Arizona State University, and an Academic Scholar at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures.
