Biography

João Saraiva is an Associate Professor at the Departmento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, and a researcher member of HASLab/INESC TEC. He obtained a MSc degree from University do Minho in 1993 and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Utrecht University in 1999. His main research contributions have been in the field of programming language design and implementation, program analysis and transformation, functional programming, and green software. He supervised 4 (FCT funded) PostDoc projects, 12 PhD projects (8 awarded and 4 running) and over 40 MSc thesis. He has published over 100 publications (scopus) in conferences and journals. He has served in over 90 program committees of international events, and in the evaluation committees of 8 research agencies: ANII (Uruguay), ANR (France), FCT (Portugal), FRS-FNRS (Belgium), FWF and WWTF (Austria), La Caixa (Spain), and NWO (The Netherlands).

He has experience in participating and coordinating research projects in his research areas, both at national level with projects funded by FCT (projects: PURe, IVY, AMADEUS, CROSS, SSaaPP, AutoSeer, FATBIT, and GreenSwLab) and at international level with projects funded by EPSRC (UK), FLAD/NSF (USA) and by the European Union.

João Saraiva is one of the founders of the successful series of summer schools on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering (GTTSE), which he co-organized in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2015 (volumes 4143, 5235, 6491, 7680 and 10223 of LNCS - Tutorial by Springer-Verlag) in Braga. He was the organizing chair of ETAPS'07, The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, organized in Braga in 2007, and a member of its scientific committee (2007-2012).