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João Paulo Cunha is Full Professor of Bioengineering & Electrical & Computers Engineering (ECE) at the Department of ECE of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal; Senior Researcher at the INESC-TEC: Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering where he created and coordinates the BRAIN – Biomedical Research And INnovation - research group and co-founded the Center for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER) that aggregates ~40 researchers. Prof. Cunha is also a mentor/co-founder and contributor to several MedTech/DeepTech startups (eight until now) by advising and licensing intellectual property of innovative biomedical technology developed for several years in his lab, such as Biodevices (http://www.biodevices.pt), iLof-Intelligent Lab-on-Fiber (https://ilof.tech) and inSignals Neurotech (http://www.insignals-neurotech.com). He is visiting professor at the Neurology Dep., Faculty of Medicine of the University of Munich, Germany since 2002 and at the Carnegie Mellon University – Silicon Valley Campus, USA, between 2016 and 2021. He serves as Scientific Director of the Carnegie-Mellon | Portugal program since 2014.

He earned a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering (1989), a Ph.D. (1996) and an Habilitation (“Agregação”) degree (2009) in Electrical Engineering all at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Dr. Cunha is Senior Member of the IEEE – Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers - (2004), member of the Editorial Board of NATURE/Scientific Reports (5th most cited journal in 2022) and Associate Editor of FRONTIERS/Signal Processing journal. He is also habitual reviewer of several IEEE journals and other relevant scientific journals such as PLoS ONE or Movement Disorders. He is an internationally renowned expert in advanced biosignal processing, human motion analysis and neuroimaging. He has supervised and co-supervised more than 15 PhD & Post-doc students in his areas of R&D. He received several awards, being the most relevant the European Epilepsy Academy (EUREPA) “Best Contribution for Clinical Epileptology” Award in 2002. Prof. Cunha is co-author of +200 scientific publications and 43 patents from 10 patent families, holding an h-index of 34 (Google Scholar), with +4,500 citations.

My academic path started with a graduation in Physics Engineering (IST/Lisbon), followed by an MSc in Electrotechnical Eng. and Computers (IST/Lisbon), and a PhD in Physics /FCUP/UPorto). Along the way, I participated in different projects that had, as a common feature,  the development of new solutions or approaches in Applied Optics (LIDAR measuring systems, biosensors, fiber optic sensing, high resolution optical imaging, optical coherence tomography). As a lecturer at UPorto, I have been mostly envolved in the Physics Eng. and Medical Physics MSc programs. At the Center of Applied Photonics (INESC TEC) I have found the place/team to develop my research in applied optics, looking for solutions for academic challenges, but most importantly for the challenges we receive from industrial partners, seeking for new measuring approaches using light as a probing agent. 

João Claro is Chairman and CEO of INESC TEC, and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). He is also Director of the PhD in Engineering and Public Policy at FEUP, and President of the Academic Council and Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Porto Business School (PBS). His area of focus is Technology Management and Policy.

He currently serves as Scientific Director of the UT Austin Portugal Program. In recent years, he has worked closely with Carnegie Mellon University, namely as the National Director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, and with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, namely as a visiting scholar.

He was a member of the Board of the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO) between 2020 and 2023.

João Claro holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from FEUP (2008), an MSc in Quantitative Methods in Management from PBS (2002), and an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from FEUP (1993). Prior to returning to the University, he was a software engineer and information systems project manager at Edinfor (1994-1998).

Henrique M. Salgado graduated in Applied Physics (Optics and Electronics) from the University of Porto in 1985 and received the PhD degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Systems from University of Wales in 1993. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers of the University of Porto in 1999 as an Invited Assistant Professor and in 2003 he became Associate Professor. Since 1995 that he heads the Optical and Electronics Area of INESC TEC, begin responsible for several national and internationally funded (EU) research projects. From 1997-1999 he was Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University College London, UK and previously Research Assistant at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Systems, Bangor, UK. He is the author and co-author of numerous international publications in the field of optical fibre communications and microwaves. His current research interests include: radio-over-fiber technology and microwave photonics, digital equalization in coherent optical systems, all-optical networks, modeling of nonlinearities and design of compact multiband antennas. He is a member of the Photonics and Communications societies of the IEEE.

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Minho and a senior researcher at HASLab - INESC TEC. I mainly work on the application of formal software engineering techniques and tools to the modelling and analysis of interactive system. 

Current and recent funded research includes: formal modelling and analysis of interactive systems (with a particular focus on medical devices); model-based testing of user interfaces; prototyping of ambience intelligence systems using virtual reality simulations; and the reverse engineering of the user interface layer of software systems.