The Informatics Engineering Department at FEUP has the following mission:

• To provide international level education in the area of Informatics Engineering, namely on its scientific, technical, ethical and cultural dimensions;
• To produce research and development of excellence for the progress of Computer Science and to support education activities in Informatics Engineering.

The Informatics Engineering Department - DEI,  started its activities on the 1st of January 2008 with a teaching body of 38 staff members involved in scientific and technical subjects included in the "Bodies of Knowledge" in the curricula of ACM and IEEE.
Nowadays the department is formed by a body of four administrative and 55 teaching staff members, 35 of whom PhD holders who develop their activities on the following subareas:

• Computing Systems Architectures 
• Computer Graphics and Interative Digital Media
• Sciences and Technology Programming
• Software Engineering
• Information Systems
• Intelligent Systems

Members of DEI are lecturing in the following courses:

• Post-graduation (Doctoral):

• Graduation (Masters):

• Graduation (Integrated Masters):

• Under graduation (Bachelor):

Members of DEI develop their R&D activities in the following DEI laboratories:

• (LIA - ROB): Artificial Intelligence – Robotic and Simulation R&D Laboratory                            

           Responsible person: Rosaldo Rossetti

• (LIA - SMA): Artificial Intelligence – Multi-agent Systems R&D Laboratory

           Responsible person: Eugénio Oliveira

• (SERGUP): Software Engineering R&D Laboratory

           Responsible person: Ana Paiva

• (InfoLab): Information Systems R&D Laboratory

           Responsible person: Carla Teixeira Lopes

• (LABS@DEI): LABS@DEI R&D Laboratory 

           Responsible person: Maria Cristina Ribeiro

• (GIG): Computer Graphics, Interaction and Gaming R&D Laboratory

            Responsible person: Rui Rodrigues

• (CSM): Music and Sound Computing R&D Laboratory

           Responsible person: Rui Penha

• (SYSCOMP): Computing Systems R&D Laboratory

           Responsible person: João Cardoso

• Pervasive Computing R&D Laboratory

            Responsible person: António Miguel Pimenta Monteiro

• Digital Media R&D Laboratory

            Responsible person: António Coelho

And also at the following Research Units, financed by FCT (the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology):

• INEB
• INESC TEC
• ISR - P
• LIACC
• LIADD