António Pedro Rodrigues de Aguiar is Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Tecnico (http://www.ist.utl.pt). He teaches courses in Nonlinear Control Systems (http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pedro/NCS0809), Modelling and Simulation, Optimization and Algorithms, and Automatic Control. Aguiar earned his Licenciatura (a 5-year university degree) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon, where he went on to complete his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also conducted Postdoctoral research at the Center for Control, Dynamical-systems, and Computation (CCDC), University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Aguiar’s research interests fall under control systems theory and applications, with particular interest in the following topics: nonlinear control theory, switched and hybrid systems, networked control systems, navigation and guidance of autonomous vehicles, and underactuated and nonholonomic systems. For information on current research projects, visit http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pedro/DENO/, http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pedro/NAV/, http://www.grex-project.eu/, www.freesubnet.eu, and www.Co3-AUVs.eu.

Pedro Aguiar is a professor with the Systems and Robotics (ISR) group at the Instituto Superior Tecnico. His recent projects include Inference of 3D structure from pictures of structured environments, distributed optimization of signal processing applications, and automatic image recognition. He teaches courses in Image and Video Processing, Multimedia Signal Processing, Signals and Systems, and Statistical and Computational Models in Vision, among others.

Aguiar holds a Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico.

Rui Baptista is Associate Professor of Strategy and Organizations at the Department of Engineering Management of Instituto Superior Técnico and Senior Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute of Economics (Jena, Germany) since March 2004. He is also Coordinator of the Laboratory of Technology Policy and Management of Technology, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, IN+, since February 2005.

Baptista’s research and teaching focus mainly on the subjects of entrepreneurship, technological innovation, firm and labor mobility, and their relationship with economic growth and regional development. He is also interested in the relationship between cultural values, governance, economic regulation and political economy.

He holds a Licenciatura in Economics from the Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon and a Ph.D. in Economics from the London Business School at the University of London.

Victor Barroso is the head of the Institute for Systems and Robotics, and of the Signal and Image Processing Group. His research interests are in the general areas of statistical signal and array processing, particularly on their applications on radio and underwater acoustics wireless communications.

Barroso holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), part of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Professor Alexandre José Malheiro Bernardino earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2004 from Instituto Superior Técnico, where he also completed a Masters and undergraduate work in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering, Robotics and Control. Bernardino teaches courses in Robotics, Control, Distributed and Real-Time Control, Systems, Machine Learning, Signals and Systems, Circuit Theory, and System Modeling and Identification in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (deec.ist.utl.pt) at IST Lisboa (www.ist.utl.pt). His research interests include Computer Vision, Robotics, Control, and Artificial Intelligence, and he currently conducts research at the Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (isr.ist.utl.pt). Other research projects include RobotCub (www.robotcub.org), Handle (www.handleproject.eu), and URUS (urus.upc.es).

Pedro Carvalho's research interests are in T&D planning and operation, risk assessment, design for reliability, and power quality. For the past ten years he has been working on novel planning formulations, robust optimization algorithms, and advanced computer applications for large-scale distribution networks. He teaches basic and advanced courses in power systems engineering, and graduate courses in optimization and risk assessment.

He holds undergraduate, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).

Joao Paulo Costeira’s research interests are in computer vision, 3D reconstruction, and factorization methods.

Pedro Ferreira’s research focuses on economic and technical efficiency of networks telecommunications, and in particular the Internet and in interconnection agreements between operators. He has taught courses in the areas of Telecommunications Modeling and Policy Analysis, and Telecommunications Management and Policy, and dissemination of information and communication technologies, economic growth, employment, and wage inequality.

Ferreira holds masters degrees in Technology Policy and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon.

Mário A. T. Figueiredo is an associate professor at IST. His areas of research focus include image and signal processing; analysis and computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning. He teaches courses in data coding and compression and statistical learning.

Figueiredo holds B.Sc, M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico.

Prior to his work in the Math Department at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Professor Diogo Aguiar Gomes held positions as an Professor at IST as well as an Instructor at the University of Texas in Austin. He received both his undergraduate and Masters degrees, in Physics Engineering and Applied Mathematics, respectively, at IST, going on to earn his PhD in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Gomes, whose research interests include partial differential equations, viscosity solutions, and optimal control, has also been involved in research at the Center for Mathematical Analysis, Geometry and Dynamical Systems. His current projects are DENO: DEvelopment of Nonlinear Observers (FCT - Portugal), Mathematical Physics (FCT - Portugal), and Optimization of Newtonian resistance for non-convex bodies (FCT - Portugal).

José Matias is an Assistant Professor at IST. His areas of research focus on continuum mechanics and on the calculus of variations. He teaches courses in Complex Analysis and Differential equations (undergrad), Distribution Theory and Integral Transforms (grad), and Calculus of Variations (grad).

He holds a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Isabel Trancoso’s research interests lie in speech synthesis and recognition, coding speech-to-speech translation, and computer-aided language learning. She teaches, among others, speech processing courses and programming at the Instituto Superior Técnico.

She is also a senior researcher at INESC ID Lisbon, having launched the speech processing group, now restructured as Spoken Language Systems Lab. Her current scope is much broader, encompassing many areas in speech recognition and synthesis, with a special emphasis on tools and resources for the Portuguese language. She is a member of the IEEE Speech Technical Committee and the Permanent Council for the Organization of the International Conferences on Spoken Language Processing. She was elected Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (2003-2005), and Member-at-Large of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors (2006-2008). Trancoso’s current research projects include VIDIVIDEO, LIREC, and POSTPORT.

She holds Licenciado, Mestre, Doutor and Agregado degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon.

João Xavier’s research interests focus on signal processing on manifolds. This includes modeling, filtering, parametric estimation bounds, Riemannian centroid computation, manifold learning, smooth and nonsmooth optimization, etc.

Xavier holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).