Academic Management Positions
Position Unit/Area Begin Date End Date
Coordenador do 3º Ano Bachelor Degree in Software and Applications Development 2024-09-01 2025-08-31
Director Post Graduation Program in Digital Product Innovation 2024-04-18 2025-04-17
Coordenador do 2º Ano Bachelor Degree in Software and Applications Development 2023-09-01 2024-08-31
Director Bachelor Degree in Software and Applications Development 2023-09-01 2025-08-31
Coordenador do 1º Ano Bachelor Degree in Software and Applications Development 2022-09-01 2023-08-31
Membro (Docente) Comissão Científica 2022-09-01 2024-08-30
Director Bachelor Degree in Software and Applications Development 2022-02-28 2023-08-31
Director Postgraduate Seminar in IoT for Smart Cities 2021-07-01 2021-09-30
Membro (Docente) Plenário da Comissão Científica 2010-07-01 2013-07-01
Membro Comissão Científica 2010-05-26 2013-05-26
Awards
Award Description Year
Best Paper Award "Understanding spatiotemporal station and trip activity patterns in Lisbon Bike-Sharing System" , 4th EAI International Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems, Dec 3rd, Vitoria Albuquerque; Francisco Andrade; Miguel Dias; João Ferreira 2020
Com os estudantes Tiago Miguel Pedro e Filipe Gaspar - aceleração de inovação com Design Thinking (pela Productize.it) . 2 etapas: conceito e estudos de utilizador e de mercado, e MVP do scanner 3D portátil. 2º e o 3º lugar nos dois estágios da aceleração 2016
Best Paper Award: Hämäläinen, A., Meinedo, H., Tjalve, M., Pellegrini, T., Trancoso, I., Dias, M. S. “Improving speech recognition through automatic selection of age group – specific acoustic models”, PROPOR 2014, USP, Brasil, October2014. 2014
Uma atualização da tecnologia Personal Life Assistant – PLA (projeto Living Home Center), recebeu o Prémio "Ser Capaz - Investigação e Tecnologia” 2011, 2ª Menção Honrosa entre 22 concorrentes, um valor pecuniário de 1500 Euro, no contexto de uma parceria Universidade-Empresa, Microsoft com o ISCTE. Com a Prof. Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues da FEUP 2012
Prémio de Inovação Tecnológica "Engenheiro Jaime Filipe" – 2010 (5K Euro), Personal Life Assistant – PLA. Parceria MSFT-ISCTE-FEUP - teses de Msc Fernando Pinto, Carlos Pires, co-orientadas Prof. Eduarda Rodrigues da FEUP e pelo próprio, 2011
Best paper Award: Almeida, R., Dias, M. (2010), "On the interoperability between online virtual worlds and augmented reality", VII Workshop de Realidade Virtual e Aumentada - WRVA 2010 São Paulo, Brasil, 10th Novembro 2010, 10th November 2010. 2010
Best paper award. Gaspar, Filipe, Dias, M. S., Bastos, R. (2009), “Infrared Tracking System for Immersive Virtual Environments”, Actas do 17º EPCG, 17º Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica, UBI, Covilhã, 29-30 de Outubro 2009 2009
Prémio: Microsoft Engineering Excellence Innovation Award for China 2008: MBDC, Microsoft Business Division China e MLDC, Microsoft Language Development Center, Portugal: sistemas de síntese de fala: 18 línguas em 18 meses. MLDC: TTS pt-pt, pt-br 2008
Rafael Bastos e Miguel Sales Dias receberam o “Best Paper Award” pelo seu artigo “Efficient Texture Tracking using Optical Flow and Backprojection Information”, apresentado ao 15º EPCG, Microsoft Portugal, Tagus Park, Porto Salvo, 15-17 Oct 2007. 2007
"Best Demo Award": “Tangible Interaction for Conceptual Architectural Design”, in ART02, “The First IEEE International Augmented Reality Toolkit Workshop”, Darmstad, Alemana, Fraunhofer IGD. Em competição com 7 equipas dos EUA, Alemanha e Áustria 2002
External Professional Activities
Employer Country Description Period
MEDENER is the Mediterranean Association of National Agencies for Energy Management. (Board of Directors) Belgium (Bruxelas) Member of the Board of Directors (MEDENER is the Mediterranean Association of National Agencies for Energy Management. It brings together agencies in the Mediterranean region in charge of energy efficiency and the promotion of renewable energy sources, two key conditions for the success of the energy transition.) 2018 - 2021
Adene, Energy Agency (Board of Directors) Portugal (Lisboa) Member of the Board of Directors (ADENE, the Portuguese Energy Agency, is a private non-profit association with a public interest status, supervised by the Secretary of State of Energy of the Ministry of Environment and Energy Transition, whose activities and statutes are ruled by several Decree-Laws. ADENE is as part of the Portuguese Scientific and Technological System and has the mission to develop and enforce activities under public policies, to promote the efficient use of energy and water, by all and every day, contributing to a more sustainable society. ADENE´s vision is to be the centre of excellence for the energy transition, mobilizer of citizens and institutions, towards a more competitive, sustainable and low-carbon economy.) Since 2016
Microsoft (MLDC - Microsoft Language Development Center) Portugal (Lisboa) Director (MLDC was the first European R&D Centre in Speech and natural HCI technologies of Microsoft Corporation, in Portugal (Microsoft Language Development Center, MLDC), where, from 2005 and during 11 years, he collaborated closely with global Microsoft software product groups (in USA, China and Europe) and local teams of marketing, finance, human resources, IT, sales and services) 2005 - 2016
INESC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores (CAD-CAM) Portugal (Lisboa) Research Fellowship ( INESC-ID aims at being the main research center for combined Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in Portugal, addressing a wide range of related fields, including: energy systems, control, signal processing, electronics (circuit design, quality, and test), embedded systems, networks, distributed systems, software engineering, algorithms, data management, bioinformatics, information systems, intelligent agents, human computer interfaces and graphics, and natural language processing) 1989 - 1991
INETI (Computer Graphics, Physics and Optics Department) Portugal (Lisboa) Research Fellowship (The National Institute of Engineering, Technology and Innovation is an institution of Research, Demonstration and Technological Development, integrated in the Ministry of Economy, whose MISSION is to promote technological innovation through the realization of RTD and other related Science and Technology activities, with business orientation (and industrial emphasis), contributing primarily to increasing the competitiveness of companies, within the framework of sustainable economic progress) 1987 - 1989
EID - Empresa de Investigação e Desenvolviimento de Electrónica SA (Product Development) Portugal (Lazarim) Research Fellowship (Established in 1983, EID is a Portuguese high tech industry with deep know-how and vast experience in the fields of electronics, communications and command & control. The company is focused in the design, manufacture and supply of advanced, high performance equipment and systems, mainly for the worldwide defense community. We are active in multiple countries worldwide, with customers in Europe, Africa, South America, Middle East and in the Asia Pacific region. EID is part of Cohort plc, the UK-based independent technology group.) 1985 - 1986
TMX Portugal - Timex (Product Development) Portugal (Lisboa) Development Engineer (Manufacurer of home computers Spectrum, TC 2048, TC 2068) 1984 - 1985
Products
Product Type Product Title Detailed Description Year
Patent A Mechanism that Provides Human-Machine Interaction and Visualization of A 3D Virtual Representation of a Product A Mechanism that Provides Human-Machine Interaction and Visualization of A 3D Virtual Representation of a Product 2007