José Machado
José Machado was born in Arcos de Valdevez (Portugal) 61 years ago. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Minho, where he has taught since 1987. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and works in the areas of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Medical Informatics. He was director of the ALGORITMI Centre (2018-2024) and leads technological innovation projects. He has supervised 16 PhD students and 100 masters, as well as collaborating on national and European projects. He has evaluated projects for international and national agencies, and has published more than 400 scientific papers. He is also editor of several international scientific journals. He currently leads the Computer Science and Technology group (CST) and the Knowledge Engineering laboratory (KEG) at ALGORITMI. He is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LASI), which includes 13 research centres from the national research system.
