Tuesday, 2/27/2018
José Manuel Machado,
Associate Professor with Habilitation from the Department of Informatics (DI)
of the EEUM, took office as the new Director of the ALGORITMI Research Centre
of the EEUM on the 9th February 2018.
José Manuel Machado, Associate Professor with Habilitation from the
Department of Informatics (DI) of the EEUM, was recently elected director of
this Research Centre for the period 2018-2021. The management team also counts
on Paulo Cortez, Associate Professor with Habilitation from the Department of
Information Systems, Maria Sameiro Carvalho, Associate Professor from the
Department of Production and Systems, and Jorge Cabral, Assistant Professor
from the Department of Industrial Electronics, as assistant directors.
In his acceptance speech, the new director greeted particularly the
former direction team and underlined the trust bestowed on him by his
colleagues upon his election: “ALGORITMI is a national reference Research
Centre and the largest at the University of Minho. All the work accomplished over
the last few years should be valued.”, José Manuel Machado highlighted.
José
Manuel Machado completed his bachelor degree in Systems and Informatics
Engineering in 1988 and his PhD in Computer Sciences in 2002, both at the
University of Minho. He is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the DI of the EEUM since 2011 and his areas of
interest focus on Knowledge Engineering, Information Quality in Database
Systems, Soft Computing, Biomedical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence in
Medicine.
José Manuel Machado coauthored 317 publications in books, book chapters,
journals and proceedings of national and international conferences. He participated
in dozens of projects funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT),
the European Community or through external service provision. He was also a
member of the board of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence
between 2006 and 2013.
The ALGORITMI Research Centre (ALGORITMI) develops R&D activities
spreading into four major fields: Information Systems, Computing Technologies;
Electronics, Energy, Robotics; Computer Networks, Pervasive Computing;
Operational Research, Industrial Engineering and Management. The ALGORITMI is
organised in Research Groups, which define their own strategy while keeping an
open attitude about promoting collaboration within its research team.
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info: http://algoritmi.uminho.pt/; http://www.di.uminho.pt/
