Dr. Paulo Dias

Paulo Dias graduated from the University of Aveiro, Portugal in 1998 being Awarded with the Alcatel price “Prémio Engenheiro José Ferreira Pinto Basto” for the best student of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Aveiro. He worked at the Joint research center in Italy from 1998 until 2002. In September 2003, he concluded his Ph.D. at University of Aveiro with the thesis “3D Reconstruction of real-World Scenes Using Laser and Intensity Data”. He is currently an Assistant Professor within the Department of Electronics Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro, and an active member of IEETA – Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering of Aveiro. He is the head of the VARLab, an informal group of individuals within IEETA working in virtual and augmented reality. He has supervised 2 Ph.D. and more than 50 M.Sc. students. He authored over 30 journal publications and 100 conference papers. His main research interests are 3D reconstruction, virtual and augmented reality, computer vision, computer graphics, visualization, combination, and fusion of data from multiple sensors.