About
Augusto Sousa (m) got his PhD in 1996 in the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal, in the area of Computer Graphics/Image Synthesis and Parallel Computing. He has been teaching in the same Faculty since 1983, in areas related to Computer Architectures and Computer Graphics.
Currently, he is member of the Executive Board of FEUP, being the Vice-President of the Academic Affairs Council. Between 2008 and 2014, he was director of MIEIC - Master in Informatics Engineering and Computing (a 5 years master program) and between 2000 and 2003, he was a member of the first Executive Board of the Bachelors in Journalism and Communications Sciences of UPorto. He is member of the Scientific Committee of ProDEI - Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering.
Since 1985, he has been a researcher in INESC/INESC Porto, where he was the Coordinator of the Information Systems and Computer Graphics Unit. He was supervisor of two doctoral theses, in " Optimization of Visualization in Large 3D Scenes" and in " Spatio-Temporal Data Storage, Processing and Visualization", as well as co-supervisor of three doctoral thesis in "Image Synthesis", "Virtual reality" and "Automatic Modeling of Virtual Urban Environments. He was also Supervisor of several masters' theses in various areas of Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality and Geographical Information Systems.
A. Augusto de Sousa was involved in several R&D projects related to Advanced/Intuitive Interaction, Image Synthesis and Virtual Reality. He was involved in an European project (IST-2000-28169, “Smartsketches”) and was the responsible researcher for several FCT (Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology) financed projects, mainly in two areas: Expeditious Modelling and Visualization of Urban Virtual Environments, and Spatio-Temporal Data Processing and Visualization.
As a member of the Executive Board of the Portuguese EUROGRAPHICS Chapter, he was, in two different periods of time, President, Vice-President and Treasurer, as well as a member of the Executive Committee of the EUROGRAPHICS Association itself (by inherence).
