Biography

José Valente de Oliveira received the Hab. in Informatics Engineering (2022) from University of Algarve, Ph.D. (1996), M.Sc. (1992), and a (5-years) Licentiate in Electronics and Computer Engineering (1988), all from the IST, University of Lisbon. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Algarve where he serves as the Head of the Department of Electronics and Informatics Engineering and as the Director of the PhD Program in Informatics Eng. In the past he served as Deputy Dean (2000-2003) and President of the Pedagogical Board (2010-2011). His research interests are in the interdisciplinary areas of generative artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural computing. José Valente de Oliveira is an integrated member of Nova-Lincs research center (UAlg branch) and a collaborator of the Center of Intelligent Systems , idMEC, a research Institute member of the Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aeronautics (LAETA) where he was an integrated member from 2020 to 2023. José Valente de Oliveira serves in the editorial board of several WoS journals, is an editor of the books Advances in Fuzzy Clustering and Its Applications, Wiley 2007; and Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective, Springer, 2012. He has been listed as one of the top 2% world scientists with career-long citation impact (2019, 2020, 2023) and with citation impact during a single calendar year in Information & Communication Technologies, subfield: Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing, according to a Stanford University study and its successive updates. He was a visiting Faculty at University of Alberta (2005), Universidade Nacional de Timor Loro Sae (2005), Carnegie Mellon University (2012), Universidade Federal do Ceará (2013), an Ecuador Prometeo Researcher at UPS (2015), and Chongqing Technology and Business University (2017).