Biography

Jose 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 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 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, IHF Awards 2021). 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 is former director of the ALGORITMI R&D Center of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (2018-24). He is 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. He is also former Director of the CCTC-Center for Computer Science and Technology (2013-2015). He is the coordinator of the ERASMUS at the University of minho (in Medical Informatics) and he is former PhD Diretor of the PhD in Biomedical Engineering. He is member of the coordination board of the LASI (Intelligent Systems. Associate Lab).

He supervised 16 PhDs, 101 MSc and 4 post-Doc students. He supervises now 5 PhD students (Biomedical Engineering, Informatics, AESi, Industrial Engineering and Systems), 32 MsC students (Biomedical Engineering, Informatics, Informatics and Law) and 2 post-Docs. He supervises also several grants in research projects. He was also evaluator of research projects from scientific entities of Canada, Swiss, Peru, UAE and Portugal (FCT, ANI and MIT Portugal), as well as of the European Science Foundation and ALBAN program. He is or was involved in the collaboration projects between Bosch Car Multimedia and ALGORITMI. He leads sub-projects of the PRR agendas GReenAuto and Be.Neutral. The works are developed within the group of "Knowledge Engineering", he coordinates.

He has more than 470 publications in books, book chapters, journals and proceedings of international and national conferences, of which more than 370 are indexed (ISI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM) and 73 in journals. He has in Scopus 2480 citations, h-index = 24, authors from 43 countries. He is editor of BiomedInformatics-MDPI, associate editor of IJRQEH-IGI Global and Frontiers in Public Health (section Disaster and Emergency Medicine), a member of the "editorial advisory board" of 4 international journals or "book series", member of the editorial board of 11 international journals (e.g Applied Sciences-MDPI, Artificial Intelligence-MDPI, Knowledge-MDPI, Scalable Information Systems-EAI Transactions, Open Computer Science-De Gruyter) 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, including IJCAII, AAMAS and IEEE CEC. He was conference chair of international conferences (EPIA 2024, EPIA 2007, ESM 2011, ISC 2018 , AISCOVID19 2021, AISCOVID19 2022, DeepLearning 2022 Spring, Blockchain 2023), involved in the organization committee of international conferences (EUMAS 2006, ICMA 2019, ECEA 2019, IDEAL 2020, DCAI 2021, DCAI 2022, PAAMS 2023) 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 was the chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Portuguese Chapter (2020-2021).