Apresentação Pessoal

Welcome.
Please also visit fe.up.pt/asousa.
I am currently a Professor at FEUP and a Researcher at InescTec, within the Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS)
I am passionate about Education and it is also a target of my research.
Regarding more technical areas, I do research in the fields of Automation and Robotics.

My topics of research of activity are:

• Robotics
  • Data Fusion
  • Self Localization - mainly vision based (including RGBD systems)
  • Intelligent Robotics (robotic perception, etc)
  • Robot learning

• Automation
  • Industrial Automation
  • Real Time Vision Systems - vision systems as sensors
  • Event Driven Control Systems and Languages
  • Project in engineering, incl Concurrent Engineering
  • Control (process control by means of AI)

• Education (Higher Education)
  
  • Massification
  • Technologies at the service of education
  • Games for learning
  • Robotics for Junior Teaching
  • Ethics in engineering

Links:

• Personal web page - http://fe.up.pt/asousa
• CV: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/en/1C17-7D93-4CF3
• CV ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0317-4714
• Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=a10vuHoAAAAJ 
• Research Gate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Armando_Sousa 
• LinkedIn: https://pt.linkedin.com/in/armando-jorge-sousa-7a724312 
• AuthenticusID: https://www.authenticus.pt/en/profileOfResearchers/publicationsList/2598

I am affiliated with:

• _UP_ / _FEUP_   
•  INESC_TEC_  / Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS)

Short Bio:

• Armando Jorge Miranda de Sousa received his PhD in 2004, in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at University of Porto - Faculty of Engineering (FEUP), Portugal. His thesis work was in the subarea of Robotics and Automation. He is currently an Associate Professor in the ECE department of FEUP and an integrated senior researcher at Centre for Intelligent and Industrial Systems (CRIIS) at the INESC TEC interface institute. He earned in 2014 the International Engineering Educator "ING.PAED.IGIP" from the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy and is currently an active member for the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). His main research areas include Higher Education and Robotics, but most recently focusing on Robot Learning and Learning for Cyber Physical Systems. Application areas include not only intelligent robots for agriculture and forest but also robotic manipulation of flexible objects. As a frequent participant in robotic contests, some of which used AI in real world robotics, he has earned several national and international merits (examples: vice champion of RoboCup Robotic Soccer in 2006, winner of Autonomous Driving of Portuguese Robotics Open of 2022). He has also earned educational awards such as the University of Porto (UP) excellence award in 2015 and 10 best at ECEL 2015 excellence e-learning awards. He has published over 80 indexed peer reviewed articles both in pedagogical issues and more technical areas. Also, he has a patent entitled "Device and method for identifying a cork stopper and respective kit". He is also involved in educational and technical funded projects such as "IntelWheels 2" and "blockchain.pt". He has 4 finished PhD (co-)supervisions and currently has a 7 PhD students. He has (co-)supervised close to 100 MsC dissertations. More details in https://www.cienciavitae.pt/en/1C17-7D93-4CF3 and https://fe.up.pt/asousa.