José Machado
Full Professor & Researcher at Algoritmi and LASI
José Machado is Full Professor of the Department of Informatics, School of Engineering, University of Minho.
He is at the University of Minho since 1988. He got his PhD in Computer Science in 2002 and Habilitation in 2011. He teaches and taught more than 50 curricular units in the topics of Databases, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering, Intelligent Systems, Medical Informatics, Computer Science for Law and Informatics in different and related fields of Computer Engineering.
He has participated in dozens of publicly funded projects through FCT, the European Community or through the provision of services to the Community.
He is one of the authors of the AIDA platform (Agency for Interoperation, Dissemination and Medical Information Archives), currently operating in several hospitals in Portugal. The AIDA platform is an example of the success of the strategy followed in terms of technology transfer from the University to abroad, having received several national prizes (Hospital of the Future 2007, 2008 and 2009, Good Practices in Health 2014, Portugal Digital Awards 2016).
He also co-authored the first version of the Diploma Supplement which follows the model developed by the European Commission, Council of Europe and UNESCO / CEPES, which aims to provide sufficient independent data to improve international “transparency” and academic education, as well as professional recognition of qualifications.
He has always prioritized work in scientific R&D groups geared towards application in industrial domains and public services, in particular courts, hospitals and city councils.
He is former director of the ALGORITMI R&D Center of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (2017-2024).
He is also former Associate Director of ALGORITMI (2016-17). He is a founding member and header of ALGORITMI’s “Computer Science and Technology” research line and he is founder and header of ALGORITMI’s “Knowledge Engineering” group.
ALGORITMI Research Center, is one of the largest national centers recognized by the Foundation for Science and Technology in the area of TICE, having in January 2020 more than 500 members (206 PhD researchers), most of whom are career professors from 4 departments of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho. He is member of the LASI coordination board. LASI is the biggest Protuguese Associate Laboratory, integrating 13 research centers.
He is former Director of the CCTC-Center for Computer Science and Technology (2013-2015).
He supervises also several grants in research projects. He was also evaluator of research projects from scientific entities of Canada, Swiss, UAE, Peru and Portugal, as well as of the European Science Foundation and ALBAN program.
He led or partipated in several Portugauese and European Projects. He led in particular the project DRIVES-Development and Research on Innovative Vocational Education Skills, in the University of Minho, involving 23 institutions from 11 European countries.
He is or was involved in the collaboration projects between Bosch Car Multimedia and ALGORITMI. The works are developed within the group of “Knowledge Engineering”, he coordinates.
He supervised 16 concluded PhDs, 110 MSc and 4 post-Doc students.
He has more than 400 publications in books, book chapters, journals and proceedings of international and national conferences.
He has more than 400 publications in books, book chapters, journals and proceedings of international and national conferences, of which more than 310 are indexed (ISI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM).
He has in Scopus more than 2000 citations, h-index = 23, authors from 81 countries. He is a member of the “editorial advisory board” of 4 international journals or “book series”, member of the editorial board of 9 international journals (e.g Applied Sciences-MDPI, Artificial Intelligence-MDPI, Scalable Information Systems-EAI Transactions, Open Computer Science-De Gruyter, IJRQEH-IGI Global) and was a reviewer of more than 50 articles in international journals (e.g. IJERPH-MDPI, Mathematical Problems in Engineering-Hindawi, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing-Springer, International Journal of Medical Informatics-Elsevier, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine-Elsevier, Journal of Clinical Medicine-MDPI, Frontiers of Medicine-Frontiers, Journal of Biomedical Informatics-Elsevier, Health Informatics Journal-Sage, Expert Systems-Wiley).
He has been a reviewer of publications at international conferences more than 200 times. He was conference chair of 4 international conferences (EPIA, ESM, ISC), involved in the organization committee of 4 international conferences (EUMAS, ICMA, ECEA,DCAI) and organized 41 workshops or special sessions at international level. He was a member of the board of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (2006-2013) and he is the chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Portuguese Chapter (2020-2021).
Domains
• Knowledge Engineering • Health Informatics • Business Intelligence in Centro ALGORITMI
Research Interests
• Knowledge Engineering, in particular in domains where knowledge is incomplete; • Quality of information in relational or deductive database systems; • Kowledge Representation and Reasoning; • Knowledge Discovery and Embedded Analytics; • Soft Computing; • Health and Biomedical Informatics; • Healthcare Information Systems, Interoperability, Security and Efficiency; • Electronic Medical and Health Records • Artificial Intelligence and Law; • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine;
Others Skills
• Cooperation with Macau attorney (1997-1999) and Braga attorney (1995-2002). • Cooperation between the "Universidade do Minho", "Centro Hospitalar do Porto" in Oporto (since 2002), "Hospital Padre Américo e Vale do Sousa" in Penafiel (since 2006), "Unidade Local de Saúde do Norte Alentejano (since 2008), Centro Hospitalar do Alto Ave (since 2010) and Unidade Local de Saúde de Castelo Branco (since 2014). • Member of the project team Telemedicine - Distance Diagnostic and Therapeutics , in the area of Dermatology, 1998. Co-author of the AIDA platform.
Supervision
16 PhD concluded
110 MsC Concluded
10 Keynotes
71 Talks
Projects
60 projects
11 ongoing projects
11 projects as PI
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