Joaquim Jorge (computer scientist)

Joaquim Armando Pires Jorge holds the UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality and is  University Professor in Computer Science Department at Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa and senior researcher at INESC-ID. He serves as an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society since 2023. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Victoria University Wellington (VUW) since 2022 and an Honorary Invited Professor at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2022). He is a Fellow of the Eurographics Association, a Distinguished Member and Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Distinguished Visitor, and Distinguished Contributor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Membre Libre of the Académie nationale de chirurgie (French National Academy of Surgery). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Computers and Graphics Journal (Elsevier).

Education
Joaquim Jorge received his Bachelor of Engineering from Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico in 1984. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He completed his Agregação (Habilitation) degree from Instituto Superior Técnico in 2002. His dissertation onParsing Adjacency grammars for Calligraphic Interfaces, was supervised by Ephraim Glinert.

Career and research
Shortly after receiving his Ph.D., Joaquim Jorge joined the newly formed Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico as an assistant professor. After completing his Habilitation in 2002, he was promoted to associate professor in 2004, and full professor in 2008. Jorge was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt for the academic year 1999-2000, an Adjunct Professor of the University of Calgary's Computer Science Department from 2006-2018, and a visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna in the academic year 2013-2014. He was an Elected Executive Member of the ACM Europe Council from 2015-2019. He was the Journal Papers Chair for IEEEVR2020, held on March 22-26 2020 (virtually), and was conference co-chair of IEEEVR2021, held Mar 27-April 3, 2021 in Lisbon (Virtually), and IEEEVR2022. He was the Scientific Program Co-Chair of Eurographics 2016, held in Lisbon from 9-13 May 2016. A former member of the Editorial Board of Computer Graphics Forum, he serves on the Editorial Boards of the Springer Virtual Reality Journal and the Springer/Nature Human–Computer Interaction Series. He has co-authored over 300 papers, books, and peer-reviewed conference articles. As of 2023, Jorge has graduated 17 PhD students. He has been listed as a top Computer Science Researcher in Portugal in 2022-2024. and ranked among the world's top 2% Computer Scientists by a Stanford study in 2022. His works have been cited over 11000 times and he has over 54 articles with 54 or more citations according to Google Scholar. His work is listed in Scopus, DBLP and ORCID. He is the co-editor of a Springer book on Digital Anatomy and a widely cited survey about Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling

Honors and awards

 * 2022 UNESCO Chair on AI & XR
 * 2022 Membre Libre of the Academie Nationale de Chirurgie
 * 2022 IEEE Distinguished Visitor
 * 2021 IEEE Distinguished Contributor
 * 2017 ACM Distinguished Member
 * 2015 ACM Distinguished Speaker
 * 2013 IFIP Silver Core Award
 * 2010 Eurographics Fellow
 * 2007 ACM Senior Member
 * 2001 IEEE Senior Member