Instituto Politecnico do Porto
Carlos Ramos got his graduation from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 1986 and the PhD degree from the same university in 1993. He is Full Professor of the Department of Informatics at the Institute of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP-IPP). His main interests are Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-bsased Systems, Decision Support Systems, Deep Learning, and Ambient Intelligence. He was the former Director of GECAD (Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Development and Inovation), a research unit ranked with Excellent by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, being currently member of the Administration Board. He is member of the Intelligent Systems Associate Lab from Portugal. He was Vice-President of the Polytechnic of Porto from 2010 to 2018, being responsible for the areas of R&D, Innovation and Internationalization, and since April 2022 he is Pro-President of the Polytechnic of Porto for Cooperation and International Relations. He has around 500 scientific publications (90 in scientific journals), participated in 58 international and national R&D projects, coordinating 25, and supervised 13 PhD completed works. Currently he is Director of the MSc Programme on Artificial Intelligence Engineering from ISEP/IPP and member of the External Evaluation Commission of the Portuguese Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation of HigherEducation for the area of Informatics for Polytechnics.