Aurélio Joaquim de Castro Campilho is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto. There, he teaches Image Analysis and Recognition, Biomedical Image Analysis, Measurement, Sensors and Instrumentation, and Computer Programming. In 1985, he earned his Ph.D. from FEUP, where he also earned his undergraduate and post-graduate degrees. Campiho's research interests include Medical Imaging, Image Analysis, and Pattern Recognition. His is currently involved in research projects such as Support Servers for Local and Remote Biological and Medical Image Analysis and Computer Vision (National Program for Scientific Re-equipment; Portuguese Research Council) and BING - Brain Imaging Network Grid (Leader Institution: Universidade de Aveiro; Investigador). Campilho has also worked as Adjunct Director at FEUP's Doctoral Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and as President of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering.

João Barros is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the School of Engineering of the University of Porto, the coordinator of the Instituto de Telecomunicações in Porto and a Research Affiliate of MIT. He received his undergraduate education in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto (UP), Portugal and Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany, until 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Germany, in 2004. From 2005 to 2008, João Barros was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science of the School of Sciences of the University of Porto.

The focus of his research lies in the general areas of information theory, communication networks and data security. Dr. Barros received a Best Teaching Award from the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts, as well as scholarships from several institutions, including the Fulbright Commission and the Luso-American Foundation. He held visiting positions at Cornell University and MIT, where he spent a sabbatical in 2008. Beyond his duties as Secretary of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society, his service included co-chairing the 2008 IEEE Information Theory Workshop in Porto, Portugal, and participating in NSF panels and in several Technical Program Committees, including ITW 2009, WiOpt (2008 and 2009), ISIT 2007, IS 2007, and IEEE Globecom (2007 and 2008).

João Falcão e Cunha is a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. He has been involved with theoretical and experimental work in Software Engineering and Information Systems for the past 20 years. His research interests include decision support systems, graphical user interfaces, object-oriented modeling and service science, engineering and management.

Currently he coordinates the Industrial Engineering and Management undergraduate and postgraduate study programs, and the Service Engineering and Management Master program. He is the President of the Professional Association of Computing Engineers in Portugal (Colégio de Informática da Ordem dos Engenheiros), and he is an ICTI board member.

Falcão e Cunha holds a Ph.D. in Computing Science from Imperial College London, an M.Sc. in Operations Research from Cranfield University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Porto.

Professor José Silva Matos has been head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Porto since 2001. He has also served as President of the Pedagogical Committee of Porto's Faculty of Engineering and Director of the Undergraduate Program in EEC. Matos completed his undergraduate work in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Porto, and then earned both his MSc and PhD Syracuse University in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering, respectively. He has worked as an engineer with the Electronics Laboratory of General Electrical Company as well as a Visiting Research Associate and Visiting Professor with the CASE Center at Syracuse University. His research interests include microelectronics, reconfigurable architectures, test and design-for-test of digital and analog systems.He is currently on staff at INESC Porto.

Michel Ferreira is an assistant professor at Porto's Department of Computer Science and a researcher at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (LIACC). His current research interests are in the implementation of advanced spatial database systems, simulation of moving objects and vehicular sensor networks.

He holds a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics - Computer Science from the University of Porto, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Minho, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Uiversity of Porto.

Miguel Coimbra is a lecturer at the Universidade do Porto, where he is also affiliated with two groups, Networking and Information Processing and the Instituto de Telecomunicações. His areas of research interest focus on applied computer vision for medicine and biology, specifically computer vision, medical imaging, image processing, and pattern recognition.

Coimbra holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computers from the Universidade do Porto, and a Ph.D. from Queen Mary, University of London.