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Short Bio

Associate Professor (with "Agregação") at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) - Lisbon Technical University (IST/UTL)
Member of the Institute for Systems and Robotics at Lisbon (ISR/IST) (where he coordinates the Intelligent Robots and Systems group ) since 1994.
Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) , Troy, NY - USA, (1994).
MSc degree from IST (1989) in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Licenciatura degree from IST (1984) in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Research interests: Intelligent Control Systems, applications of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems theory and Planning Under Uncertainty to the real-time control and operation of large-scale complex systems (mainly Robotics, especially multi-robot systems).

Scientific activity

Educational activity

Former Trustee (2003-2012)of the RoboCup Federation,
Cátedra de Excelencia (6 months) offered by the Board of Governors of the U. Carlos III de Madrid: sabbatical leave at the Robotics Lab from 1 Feb to 31 July 2010
Coordinator of the SocRob project
Check other R and D projects
Member of the editorial board of the Elsevier Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Member of the editorial board of the IN-TECH International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Member of the editorial board of the former International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, published by World Scientific Publishers
Member of the Editorial Board of the Portuguese journal Robótica.
Multi-Robots Special Track Chair of AAMAS'08
General Co-Chair of RoboCup 2004
Founding Elected President and current President of IEEE Portugal RAS Chapter
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Festival Nacional de Robótica, 1st Portuguese Robotics Competition and Congress Event.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the Robótica 2011 - Festival Nacional de Robótica
Main organizer of the Festival Internacional de Ciência e Tecnologia, held in Loures, Portugal, 1997, the first international robot competition held in Portugal.
Member of NASA Center for Intelligent Robotic System for Space Exploration - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, between 1990 and 1994

You may check my publications list, including books I co-authored with Dejan Milutinovic in 2007 and George Saridis in 1996. WSPbook Springerbook

Google Scholar citations' public profile.

Elected Deputy President for Scientific Affairs of ISR Scientific Board (Jan 2013 - present)
Elected member of IST Scientific Board (July 2009 - 2010, Jan 2013 - present)
Deputy Vice-President for Scientific Affairs of IST Scientific Board (March 2007 - July 2009)
Portuguese National Delegate to EC FP7 Space Programme Committee (2009-2012)
Portuguese National Delegate to ESA Programme Board for Human Spaceflight Microgravity and Exploration (PB-HME) (2009-2012)
Vice-President, past President (2009-2011), Founding Member (and No. 1 Associate) of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica,
Founding Elected President and current President of IEEE Portugal RAS Chapter
Distributed and Cognitive Robotics Focus Area Coordinator in theIST/EPFL Joint Doctoral Initiative

Past PhD students:

Paulo Tabuada - finished 4 Jan, 2002
Dejan Milutinovic - finished 20 Sep, 2004
Porfírio Silva (PhD Philosophy - Fac. Letras, U. Lisboa) - finished 12 Oct, 2007
Valdinei Silva (co-tutela com Escola Politécnica da U. São Paulo)- finished 7 April, 2009
Sónia Marques - finished 16 Jul, 2009
Hugo Costelha - finished 27 Oct, 2010
Gonçalo Neto - finished 17 Nov, 2010
Abdolkarim Pahliani - finished 30 Mar, 2012
Aamir Ahmad - finished 23 Apr, 2013
Bruno Lacerda - finished 13 Sep, 2013

My current PhD students are:

João Messias (PDEEC, co-advisor Matthijs Spaan, U. Delft) - proposal defended successfully
José N. Pereira (PDEEC/IST/EPFL, co-advisor Alcherio Martinoli, EPFL) - proposal defended successfully (at EPFL)
Meysam Basiri (PDEEC/IST/EPFL, co-advisor Dario Floreano, EPFL) - proposal defended successfully (at EPFL)
Pedro Fazenda (SSE/MIT-Pt, co-advisor Una-May O'Reilly, MIT) - proposal defended successfully
Duarte Dias (PDEEC/IST/EPFL, co-advisor Alcherio Martinoli, EPFL)

A list of ex-students and where they are now.

Autonomous Systems (MEEC) (2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2012/13, 2013/14)
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (PDEEC) (2004/2005, 2007/08, 2009/10, 2013/14)
Advanced Robotics (PDEEC) (2011/12, 2009/10, 2010/11)
Robótica (MEEC, MEIC, MEBiom) (1996-98, 2002/2003, 2006/07, 2010/11)
Portfolio (MEEC) (2011/12, 2012/13)
Inteligência Artificial e Sistemas de Decisão (LEEC, LEA, MEEC) (2005/2006, 2006/2007)
Automação de Processos Industriais (LEEC, MEEC) (2005/2006)
Robótica Móvel (MEEC, MEIC, LEEC, LEIC) (2004/2005)
Controlo (LEEC) (2003/2004)

Promotion of Science and Technology

MSc Theses

Cooperative Unmanned Land (RAPOSA NG) and Aerial Vehicles (quadcopters) (Diogo Rolo)
Quadcopter Automatic Takeoff and Landing from/on a (Mobile) Docking Station (Tiago Carreira)

Best Contact: E-mail.

Snail Mail Address:

Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica,
Instituto Superior Técnico
Torre Norte - 6.18
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049-001 Lisboa
PORTUGAL

Tel.: +351-21-841 8274
Fax.: +351-21-841 8291

Other

Check my favorite poem (in Portuguese). I wish I could live like that...
Art and Robots - The future?
Perhaps the most beautiful reference to the Sep 11, 2001 events in NYC, and a great hymn for peace, by Carl Sagan, a great scientist who was not afraid of talking about science to non-scientists
Music with no links - Just listen! (Peter Gabriel, Joe Jackson, Sting, Trovante, Rui Veloso, ...)
Sporting Clube de Portugal

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