Associate Professor at Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Lisboa/Nova Medical School and Consultant of Allergy at ULS São José (Lisbon, Portugal). He is co-chair of the "Cardiorespiratory Function and Infection" research group of Nova Medical School and a member of the Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC). In recent years, has been designing and implementing projects on chronic respiratory diseases (SAUDAR, ENVIRH, INSPIRAR, GERIA, OLDER, OSCAR, EPICOUGH).
Hugo Gamboa is a Full Professor in the Physics Department of the Sciences and Technology Faculty of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Researcher at the Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics Instrumentation Laboratory, and a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS. He received a Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1999 from the University of Lisbon Instituto Superior Técnico and completed his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2008 there. He founded and is currently President of PLUX-Wireless Biosignals S.A. He works in the areas of Engineering Sciences and Technologies with an emphasis on Electrical, Electronic, and IT Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Instrumentation. His research focuses on Medical Instrumentation and Biomedical Engineering. He founded and is co-chair of the BIOSTEC conference in its 17th edition. He is a senior member of IEEE. He is the Principal Investigator in the European project AISYM4MED, dedicated to the generation of clinical data.
Filipe Soares is a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer Portugal Research Center for Assistive Information and Communication Solutions (AICOS), conducting research on computer vision and decision support systems in the fields of Retail, Manufacturing, Precision Agriculture, and mHealth, particularly in the area of ophthalmology. He received a Ph.D. with the highest honors in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Beira Interior, Portugal, in 2014. Filipe worked as a researcher in medical imaging at Siemens Healthcare in the field of computer-aided detection and diagnosis of breast cancer, on a project for which he received the Siemens Innovation Award in 2012. He worked as a software engineer in telecommunications and embedded systems at Coriant (former Nokia Siemens Networks) in 2013. His main research areas are image processing, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, decision support systems, embedded and intelligent systems, and software engineering.
