Dr. Miguel Velhote Correia

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), where he has taught since 1998. He graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP in 1990. He obtained his Master's (1995) and Doctorate (2001) at FEUP in the areas of Industrial Automation and Computer Vision, respectively. Since March 2008 he has been a senior researcher at INESC Technology and Science responsible for the Bioinstrumentation Laboratory of the Research Center for Biomedical Engineering. He is a member of the Portuguese Official Engineers Association. From 2007 to 2017, he was co-founder and technical consultant of Kinematix Sense S.A, a start-up electronic devices company from the University of Porto and INESC-TEC. Between 1993 and 2007, he was a researcher at the Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica and, previously was at the Centro CIM do Porto at FEUP. His main research interests are in electronics and biomedical instrumentation, wearable systems, computer vision, and signal and image processing focusing on the measurement and analysis of human movement, perception, action, and performance. Since 1990, he has participated in more than two dozen funded research projects, supervised ten PhD students and fifty MSc students, and co-authored more than 150 articles published in scientific journals and international conference proceedings.