João Pascoal Faria

João Pascoal Faria holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in 1999, where he is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering and Director of the Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering (MIEIC). He his a member of the Software Engineering Research Group (softeng.fe.up.pt) and researcher at INESC TEC, where he coordinates the Software Engineering area. He represents FEUP and INESC TEC in the Technical Comission for Health Informatics (CT 199) and FEUP as President of the Sectorial Comission for the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (CS/03), in the scope of the Portuguese Quality Institute (IPQ). In the past, he worked with several software companies (Novabase Saúde, Sidereus, Medidata) and was a co-founder of two other (Qualisoft and Strongstep). He has more than 25 years of experience in education, research, development and consultancy in several software engineering areas. He is the main author of a rapid application development tool (SAGA), based on domain specific languages, with more than 25 years of market presence and evolution (1989-present). He is currently involved in research projects, supervisions and consulting activities in the areas of model-based testing, software process improvement and model-driven development.