About
Miguel Velhote Correia graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) in 1990. He obtained the Master and the Doctoral degrees also from FEUP in 1995 and 2001, in the fields of Industrial Automation and Computer Vision, respectively. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP, since 2002 and with tenure since 2007. Since March 2008, he is also a senior research member at INESC Technology and Science – Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto, head of the Bioinstrumentation Laboratory of the Centre for Biomedicla Engineering Research. Additionally, he is co-founder and technical advisor of Kinematix Sense S.A. (formerly Tomorrow Options - Microelectronics S.A), an electronic devices start-up company of University of Porto and INESCTEC. Between 1993 and 2007, he was a researcher at INEB – Institute of Biomedical Engineering, in the Biomedical Imaging and Vision Computing group and previously at the CIM Centre of Porto at FEUP. His main research interests are in Sensors and Electronics, Biomedical Instrumentation, Computational Vision and Image and Signal Processing, with focus in sensing methods, technologies and data fusion for the measurement and analysis of human movement, perception, action and performance. Since 1990, he participated in more than twenty funded research projects and co-authored over 100 research papers published in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is also member of the Portuguese Official Engineers Association, the International Association of Pattern Recognition, through its Portuguese chapter, and co-founder of the Portuguese Experimental Psychology Association.