Biography

Miguel Velhote Correia graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) in 1990. He obtained the Master and the Doctoral degrees also from FEUP in 1995 and 2001, in the fields of Industrial Automation and Computer Vision, respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP, where he teaches since 1998. Since March 2008, he is a senior research member at INESC Technology and Science at Porto, as head of the Bioinstrumentation Lab of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research. From 2007 to 2017 he was co-founder and technical advisor of Kinematix Sense S.A. (formerly Tomorrow Options - Microelectronics S.A), an electronic devices company, start-up of the University of Porto and INESCPorto. Between 1993 and 2007, he was a researcher at INEB – Institute of Biomedical Engineering, in the Biomedical Imaging and Vision Computing group and previously at the CIM Centre of Porto at FEUP. His main research interests are Electronics and Biomedical Instrumentation, Computational Vision and Image and Signal Processing, with a focus on sensing methods, technologies and data fusion for the measurement and analysis of human movement, perception, action and performance. Since 1990, he has participated in more than twenty funded research projects and co-authored over one hundred papers published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is also a member of the Portuguese Official Engineers Association, the International Association of Pattern Recognition, through its Portuguese chapter, and co-founder of the Portuguese Experimental Psychology Association.