Miguel Tavares Coimbra is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computers in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, worked in 1999 at INESC-PORTO as a researcher and began his PhD studies in 2000 in King’s College London in the area of computer vision. He transferred to Queen Mary, University of London in 2002, where he concluded his PhD studies in 2004. Dr. Coimbra worked as a post-doc researcher in medical imaging at IEETA-Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal until September 2006. He has 11 years of experience in computer vision, 7 of which in biomedical image and signal processing research. He leads a team of PhD and Msc students, has numerous publications on the field, leads two financed project in gastroenterology and cardiology and has participated as a researcher in 4 other financed projects involving clinical partners. His current research interests include biomedical signal processing and interactive systems for healthcare, with established cooperations with both international academic institutions such as CMU and QMUL and Hospitals both national (IPO-Porto, IPO-Coimbra, Centro Hospitalar Alto Ave) and international (Real Hospital Português, Brazil; Karolinska Universitessjukhuse, Sweden). Dr. Coimbra is a founding member of Porto Laboratory of the Instituto de Telecomunicações, in which he created and currently leads the Interactive Media Group. He is a Technical Advisor of the Portugal Chapter of the IEEE Engineering and Medicine Society, a EURASIP Local Liason Officer and member of the Scientific Committee of the Master in Medical Informatics of the University of Porto .
Research Interests:
- Computer Vision
- Biomedical Signal Processing
- Pattern Recognition