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Jorge Dias has an “Agregação” (Habilitation) degree and a Ph.D. on Electrical Engineering by the University of Coimbra, specialization in Control and Instrumentation. Jorge Dias have been Associated Professor at the University of Coimbra with activities in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers (www.deec.uc.pt) and the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR) (www.isr.uc.pt ) from the University of Coimbra (UC) ( www.uc.pt ).

Jorge Dias do research in the area of Computer Vision and Robotics and has contributions on the field since 1984. He has several publications in international journals, books, and conferences.

Jorge Dias has been teaching several courses on Computer Vision, Robotics, Automation and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and supervised several Ph.D. and Master students in the field of Computer Vision and Robotics. Jorge Dias was been principal investigator from several research international projects.

Jorge Dias coordinated the Mobile Robotics Laboratory from Instituto of Systems and Robotics and the Laboratory of Systems and Automation (LAS) (http://las.ipn.pt) from the Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) (www.ipn.pt). Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) is a technology transfer institute from University of Coimbra. Jorge Dias it was Vice-President from the Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) since June 2008 to June 2011.

Since July 2011, Jorge Dias is acting as Faculty from ECE/Robotics at Khalifa University (UAE) at Abu Dhabi.