Prof. Carlos Filipe Portela

Carlos Filipe Portela was born in Trofa, Portugal and went to the University of Minho in Guimarães, where he studied information systems and obtained his academic degrees in 2007 (Lic), 2009 (MSc) and 2013 (PhD). Filipe Portela holds a PhD in Information Systems and Technologies. He is an integrated researcher at Research Centre ALGORITMI, where he developed his post-doctoral research work on the topic "Pervasive Intelligent Decision Support Systems". His research started in the INTCare R&D project (Intensive Medicine area), then extended to other areas such as education, public administration, industry, and smart cities. He already has many relevant indexed publications in the main research topics: Knowledge Discovery, Data Science, Gamification, Intelligent Systems, and Pervasive Data. He is also the (co)organizer of several conferences and workshops, (co) editor of journals and books, and reviewer of many indexed journals, books, and conferences on these topics. Currently, he is also an Invited Assistant Professor of the Information Systems Department, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal, where he supervises several master students in the areas mentioned above. Filipe Portela founded IOTech - Innovation on Technology in 2018. He is the CEO and CIRO of IOTech, where he is transferring and applying its scientific knowledge for the benefit of the citizens and companies.