Short Bio

Catarina Silva is Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. She has a PhD degree in Computer Engineering, with 20 years’ experience teaching Computer Engineering BSc and MSc, while also supervising MSc and PhD students. She is a senior researcher at the Adaptive Computation Group of CISUC with machine learning and pattern recognition as main areas of research. Skilled at managing different sized projects and scientific entrepreneurships, involving people with different backgrounds, namely faculty, students, alumni and companies. Author and co-author of 4 books, circa 20 journal articles and 50 conference papers. Scientific committee and paper reviewer of several conferences and journals. President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition, IEEE senior member of the Computational Intelligence Society. Past chair of the IEEE Portuguese Section.