Researchers

Maria Antónia G. Rodrigues

Affiliation: ISCAP – P. PORTO

Bio:

Maria Antónia G. Rodrigues is a senior lecturer at the business school of Polytecnic of Porto.
She is a director of bachelor in Marketing, researcher at CEOS P.Porto and has published several papers.
Supervision of master’s theses and participation in R & D projects.
Maria Antónia Rodrigues has also a professional experience in business services, bank, telecomunications and cars’ trade.

Main interests: Interactive Marketing

José Marílio Oliveira Cardoso

Affiliation: ISEP – P. PORTO

Bio:

Marílio Cardoso has a BSc (5 years degree) in Electrical Engineering – Power Systems, School of Engineering (ISEP) of P.Porto and he is finishing a PhD in Information Technology Research Research, at University of Santiago de Compostela.
He is a lecturer at ISEP – P. Porto on the department of Computer Engineering.
He has been instructor in several courses on energy efficiency and use of energy.
In 2014 he was instructor in the summer course “Engineering for Sustainable Development”.
He has been member of Multimedia Lab of DEI.
Since 2008 he is member of ISEP Sustainable Commission.
Since 2018 he is member of the pedagogical council of ISEP.
Since 2020 he is subdirector of the department of Computer Engineering o ISEP.
He authored or co-authored several conference papers.
He has participated in two international projects.

Main interests: Learning to code, innovative educational systems and solutions, centered in the teaching of computer science and multimedia.

Tânia Rocha

Affiliation: UTAD

Bio:

Tânia Rocha, PhD in Informatics and M.Sc. in Communication and Multimedia.
She is Assistant Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) and Senior Researcher at INESC TEC-Associated Laboratory.
His main research interests are in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, with an emphasis on Multimedia, Digital Accessibility and Usability.
She won 3 national and 1 international artistic and scientific awards. In addition, she has produced more than 50 academic papers, including book chapters, articles and communications in annals, and has supervised several undergraduate projects (10 course conclusion projects) and postgraduate (5 doctoral and 8 masters) projects .
She is one of the co-founders of L.AV.A. – Audiovisuals and Accessibility Laboratory.

Main interests: Information Systems and Technologies, Information Management and BCs in Computer Science, among others.

José Marinho

Affiliation: ISEP – P. PORTO

Bio:

José Marinho is a professor from 1994 in Computer Engineering Department (DEI) School of Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP-IPP).
He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), field of Decision Support Systems, 2006.
Member ofResearch Group on Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support (GECAD), 1995-2010.

Main interests: Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Intelligent Interfaces & User Intent Identification, Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge-based Systems, among others.

Nuno Coelho

Affiliation: IPCA – ISLA

Bio:

Nuno Mateus-Coelho is Professor and author of the book Information Security, Systems Intrusion, Cloud Security, Graphic Computing and Data Privacy at the Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology (ISLA) and at the Polytechnic Institute of Cavadoand Ave (IPCA), Portugal .
He holds a BEng. in Information Systems and Multimedia Engineering, MEng. PhD in Computer Science Engineering at Polytechnic of Porto – School of Engineering (ISEP) in the area and discipline of cloud security and secure operating systems, and a PhD.
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) in the area and discipline of information security and secure operating systems.
He is a European Commission accredited specialist in R&I projects in the Horizon 2020, COSME and CEF programs in the area of information technologies. He is a TED and KeyNoteSpeaker; GDPR & DPO Expert in several Portuguese companies, ISO 27K Expert, COBIT & ITIL Expert; Certified cybersecurity expert, CEO and founder of NRMC.PT. and Manager of Altran 5GLAB.

Main interests: Cybersecurity, Multimedia Systems, information technologies

Paulo Sérgio dos Santos Matos

Affiliation: ISEP – P. PORTO

Bio:

Paulo Matos has a postgraduate studies in Industrial Computing from FEUP, and a PhD in Computer Science from UTAD.
He is a lecturer at ISEP – P. Porto on the Computer Science Department, lecturing several Course Units in the areas of graphical systems, interaction, computer aided engineering and computer science, in the courses of computer engineering and systems engineering.
He will be the next director of Multimedia Lab from DEI-ISEP.

Main interests: Graphical Systems, Interactive Systems, Computer Vision Virtual and Augmented Reality, Computer Aided Engineering, 3D Printing, Arduino programming, IOT, Domotic among others

Nuno Filipe Teixeira Malheiro

Affiliation: ISEP – P. PORTO

Bio:

Nuno Malheiro de Castro has a PhD on Electronics and Computer Engineering From UTAD.
He is a lecturer at ISEP – P. Porto on the department of Computer Engeneering and responsable from Course Units related with Advanced Programming techniques in the Master Degree on Informatic engineering.
He has participated on several research projects on past years.

Main interests: Intelligent Systems, Temporal Reasoning, Reasoning with Incomplete Information, among others.

Francisco Restivo

Affiliation: Teacher (Associate) at the Portuguese Catholic University Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences

Bio:

Francisco J. Restivo (IEEE Member’71, Life Member’2013) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal since 2010 and a researcher at LIACC – Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics at the University of Porto.
His research interests include Digital Signal Processing, Systems, Systems of Systems, Complexity, and Social and Economic Networks. He is also Scientific Director and member of the Board of Directors of IDIT-Institute for Technological Development and Innovation of Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, since 1999.
Previously, he was Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics Engineering of the Superior School of Engineering of the University of Porto since 1988. Dr. Restivo has a degree in D.Phil.

João Azevedo

Affiliation: ESMAD – P.PORTO

Bio:

João Azevedo holds a degree in Multimedia Engineering and obtained the title of specialist in the audiovisual and media production area in 2016. He began his professional career in 1998 as a web programmer and later as a multimedia producer. Its route highlights the development of the Site of the Hospital Santa Maria do Porto, the platform “Somos Top” of Porto Editora and a Virtual Reality application that obtained the 2nd place in the Contest “Periodic Table: beyond 150 years”. He was Director of the Multimedia Department of the School of Media Arts and Design. He is currently Vice-President of the same institution and is a researcher at uniMAD. His research focuses on Augmented and Virtual Reality.

Main interests: Cybersecurity, Multimedia Systems, information technologies

Diogo Silva

Affiliation: Pedagogical Director at Visionarium

Bio:

Diogo da Silva has a Master’s Degree in Basic Education (K6), both in social studies and in science.
With a solid background in computing and multimedia, he has focused his efforts on the application of technology in education, having participated and developed several projects that aim to enrich children’s lives through the conscientious use of technology.
He holds the position of Pedagogical Director of Visionarium – The STEAM Science Center, which will reopen its doors in 2021 and coordinates the STEAM department at EscolaGlobal, where he developed a curriculum focused on cooperative work and the development of soft skills.
More recently, he participated in European Schoolnet’s Skills for Industry: Robotics in Schools project and is participating in a European collaboration project aimed at using virtual reality as a socialization and education tool.

Main interests: Cybersecurity, Multimedia Systems, information technologies

Anabela Mesquita

Affiliation: ISCAP – P.PORTO

Bio:

Anabela Mesquita – Professor at the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic of Porto, since 1990.
She was Vice President of the School between 2007 and 2018. Member of the Algoritmi Research Center, Universidade do Minho and CEOS. PP (founding member).
She was Director of the Center for Research in Communication and Education.
She is president of SPACE network, an international network of higher education institutions in the areas of management, entrepreneurship, hospitality, tourism, languages.
She participates / or in several European projects as a researcher / partner responsible and as a coordinator.
She has published numerous articles in magazines and conferences.
Member of the Scientific and Program Committee of several national and international conferences. Member of the editorial board and reviewer of the American publisher IGI Global.
Associate Editor of the Information Resources Management Journal and Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction. Associate Editor of Helyion Publishing. Evaluator and reviewer of Erasmus + projects.

Main Interests: Digital Transformation and Workforce; impact of information systems on organizations; use of technologies in education; elearning; Innovation.

Ana Paula Camarinha Teixeira

Affiliation: ISCAP – P. PORTO

Bio:

Paula Camarinha holds a Ph.D. in Informatics (2015).
She is Senior Lecturer in the area of Information Technology at ISCAP/P.PORTO
Developed business activity for 12 years as head of Computer Center and Senior Analyst.
She was an invited researcher at the UP to University Project – UP2U.
Member of the scientific committee for national and international conferences and initiatives, as well as international journals.
Collaborates in the organization of several international scientific events
Collaborates as a peer reviewer in scientific journals and international conferences.
Collaborates with CEOS.PP, in the Information Systems Studies Unit
Develops several research activities in support of technologies for teaching and learning as well as research for the integration of ICT in school and social environment, culminating in the publication of articles indexed in conferences and scientific journals.

Main interests: Information Systems and Technologies, Information Management, and BCs in Computer Science among others.

Sílvia Lima Gonçalves Araújo

Affiliation: Minho's university

Bio:

Sílvia Araújo concluded her PhD in Language Sciences / Romance Linguistics in 2008 at the University of Minho / Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot.
She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Romance Studies of the University of Minho.
Her main research interests are corpus linguistics, technologies applied to languages and digital humanities. Related to these areas, she has coordinated projects funded by FCT (Perfide, PortLinguE) and the Support Program for Innovation and Development of Teaching and Learning, IDEA-UMinho (Active and Collaborative Learning Scenarios with Digital Tools).
Since 2008, she has conducted accredited training sessions on the pedagogical integration of technologies at different levels of education (basic, secondary and higher education).
She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Master’s Degree in Translation and Multilingual Communication, Director of the Master’s Degree in Digital Humanities, as well as the Coordinator of the Digital Humanities Research Group of the Center for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho.
Furthermore, she coordinates the techLING annual international conference, devoted to the application of technology to languages and linguistics, which will reach its fifth edition in 2020.

Main interests: Information Systems and Technologies, Information Management, and BCs in Computer Science among others.

Tamara Aller Carreira

Afiliação: Porto (ISCAP)

Bio:

Tamara Aller Carrera is an assistant professor at the Escola Superior de Educação of Bragança and the Polytechnic Institute of Maia.
Degree in Foreign Languages English / Spanish.
Master in Spanish as a Second Language and Foreign Language from the University of Minho – Braga.
PhD in Language Sciences from the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, in the area of specialization in Didactics of Foreign Languages.
Responsible for the production and coordination of the continuous training course “Teacher of digital competence: innovation in foreign language teaching” at FLUP, qualified by the distinction of
recognition, within the scope of the 2018 Educational InnovationAward.
Award given by Miríadax-Telefónica Educação Digital, recognized the MOOC as an initiative that stood out for its work to disseminate open knowledge in the Ibero-American Space, and for its positive impact on the digital transformation at university level in Portugal.
His research career has focused mainly on pedagogical innovation through the creation of digital teaching materials and the application of ICT tools in pedagogical practice, as well as on the development of teachers’ digital competence.
She also cooperated in the “Mu.SA: Museum Sector Alliance” project, funded by the European Erasmus + / Sector Competence Alliances program. A project, coordinated by the Hellenic Open University (HOU), from Greece, in partnership with the University of Porto, which aimed to support the continuous digital development of museum professionals.
In this context, a digital repository of Open Educational Resources to support an Open Online Course and Massive Online Specialization Course.
Professionally, she studied as a Spanish teacher at the Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administracao do Porto (ISCAP).
In addition, she acted as HIS examiner; e-trainer / e-tutor, responsible for creating, configuring and monitoring the tTraining of Spanish in e-learning.

Paulo Proença

Affiliation: ISEP-IPP

Bio:

Paulo Proença is a professor in Computer Engineering Department (DEI) School of Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP-IPP).
He completed the academic part of the Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering (PRODEI) at Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto (FEUP) and his research work is in web ontologies.
He holds a MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP.
The research project consisted of developing a multimedia application for virtual visits to museums. At DEI, he teaches courses in the areas of computer applications architecture.

Main interests: Software patterns, Architectural patterns, Distributed and decentralized software systems

Teresa Guarda

Affiliation: ESMAD – P.PORTO

Bio:

Teresa Guarda obtained her PhD in Information Systems and Technologies in 2015 from the University of Minho.
She is a researcher at the ALGORITMI Research Center at the University of Minho, Portugal, (Intelligent Data Systems (IDS) Research Team, R&D Group in Information Systems and Technologies (IST)).
She is a member and responsible for Conferences and International Relations of the interdisciplinary research group BITrum, and a member and researcher at GSIS The Institute for a Global Sustainable Society.
It already has relevant indexed publications in the main research topics: Pervasive Systems, Marketing Intelligence, Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Intelligent Systems, Business Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Data Security, Information Science, Smart Destinations, Internet-of-Things, Theory of Computation, Knowledge Management, Cybersecurity, Applied Social and Educational Technologies.
He has also been the organizer of numerous conferences and workshops, and reviewer of many indexed journals and conferences on these topics.
She has been a professor and researcher at various academic institutions in Portugal since 1991; she is currently director of the CIST Research and Innovation Center at the Faculty of Systems and Telecommunications at the State University of Santa Elena Province (Ecuador).
Member of the BITrum-Research Group research team in: the European project FIRE, “Fostering Integrative Research and Education”, in which European, Ecuadorian and Mexican academic institutions participate with the aim of developing interdisciplinary research capacities through the development of laboratory research and social innovation.
European project cycLAB, “Multidimensional development of bicycle mobility linked to scientific-technological studies, citizen movement and social assistance” in which academic institutions, energy agencies, private companies and Spanish and Portuguese municipalities participate; BITru-UPSE interinstitutional scientific collaboration glossary,

António Silva Pereira

Affiliation: ISEP – P.PORTO

Bio:

António Silva Pereira is a System Engineer and holds Computer Specialist Title.
He holds a Master in Finance and Management and an MBA in Management at ESAD.
He has important roles in companies like IBM, PricewaerhouseCoopers, TEBE, TMG, Fitor, Lankorst Euronet Group, Organtex China, etc.
Senior Lecturer in ISEP, Universidade do Minho, Católica, etc.
Organize and participate in many national and international events, congresses and presentations.
Member of several private and public organizations.
Developer and coordinator of many projects related with Organization and Information Systems.

Main interests: Information Systems, Organizational Development, Strategy Development and Inovation Management.

Maria João Cunha

Affiliation: ISEP – P.PORTO

Bio:

Speech Therapist since 1984, lecturer since 1993 in the area of language disorders.
Coordinator of the Technical Scientific areaof Speech Therapy ate Health School of Polytechnic (ESS-P.Porto) Institute of Porto.
She was Director and President of the Scientific Technical Council of ESS-P.Porto.

Jorge Mendonça

Affiliation: ISEP – P.PORTO

Bio:

Jorge Mendonça is Adjunct Professor at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto.
He holds a PhD in Statistics and Operational Research from the University of Vigo and a Master in Statistics and Probability from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
He has a degree in Educational Mathematics from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto.
He is co-coordinator of the Erasmus-DRIVE-MATH project –
Development of Innovative Mathematical Teaching Strategies in European Engineering Degree.
His main research areas are Engineering Education and Statistics (Survival analysis, Survey analysis).
He is the author or co-author of several conferences and scientific articles in engineering education and statistics.
He has a wealth of experience in organizing international events, workshops and seminars. He participated as a speaker, chairman and member of the scientific committee.
He has extensive experience in statistical analysis and interpretation of results.
He applied Eduscrum as an active learning methodology in his classes.
He has supervised and evaluated several internship projects in various areas of engineering.
He is currently a researcher at SIIS (Social Innovation and Interactive Systems).

Main interests: Interactive Learning

Paula Flores

Affiliation: Polytechnic Institute of Porto

Bio:

Paula Alves de Quadros Flores holds a Ph.D. in Educational Sciences in Educational Technology at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, a Master in Educational Management and Planning from Portucalense University and a BA in Basic Education.
She is an assistant professor at the Polytechnic of Porto, School of Education, being Coordinator of the Technical Course Scientific Unit of Supervised Pedagogical Practice and responsible for the curricular unit Initiation to Pedagogical Practice III (Licentiate in Basic Education).
She teaches in curricular units within the Supervised Educational Practice.
She is an integrated member of InED (Center for Research and Innovation in Education) and coordinates the IFITIC Project (Innovate with ICT in Initial Teacher Education to promote
renewal in Pre-school Education and in the 1st and 2nd CEB).

Joaquim Lopes

Affiliation: Escola Secundária de Castelo de Paiva

Bio:

Joaquim Lopes is Master in Eng. Informatics, Graphics and Multimedia Systems, from ISEP – IPP, he also has a degree in Informatics – Educational Branch and a Bachelor’s degree in Management Informatics from ISPGay.
Enjoys programming in languages such as C++, Visual Basic, Python, PHP, SQL, JScript.
He is a web developer and has in-depth knowledge of CMS (Content Management System) content management systems, exploring its potential in the field of web development applied to teaching.
He is a Secondary School Teacher at the Castelo de Paiva Secondary School. He is participating in the creation and development of the project “Centro Tecnológico de Castelo de Paiva” which will allow the development of skills in the field of new technologies and Robotic.
Enjoys teamwork, innovation and projects that promote knowledge and technological evolution.

Vitor Marmelo

Affiliation: ISEP-IPP

Bio:

Vítor Marmelo has a Master’s Degree in Multimedia Technology by FEUP.
Pedagogical degree by the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of University of Porto;
Degree in Fine Arts/Painting by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto;
Attended the Multimedia Art Department at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under the Erasmus program in 1997.
He is a professor at ESE-P. Porto in the Technical-Scientific Unit of Visual Arts, since 2018/2019;
Teatched at the Technological School of the Polytechnic Institute of Cavado e Ave (IPCA), in the Department of Design, in the academic years of 2006/2007 and 2007/2008.

Main interests: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Multimedia, Comunication Design, Educational Technology, Innovative Teaching.

Helder Pinto

Affiliation: ISEP-IPP

Bio:

Helder Pinto holds a PhD in Information Sciences from UFP, an Executive MBA at IoBM and a postgraduate degree in Computer Engineering from ISEP;
Helder has been a lecturer in Computer Engineering at ISEP and UFP. He previously worked as a teacher and pedagogical coordinator at ISTEC;
Helder is also currently a Project Manager and Training & Development Specialist at CESAE Digital, where he has been a trainer and pedagogical coordinator in the areas of Computer Science and Digital Art at professional training centers like CESAE, ATEC, and IEFP since 2008;
Additionally, he is a Microsoft Master Trainer for Portugal.

Main interests: Business Intelligence; Computer Science; Design Thinking; Learning and Performance Evaluation.