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Professor João Rodrigues brings a strong foundation in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to his extensive academic career. He earned his Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering in 1993, followed by a Master’s in Systems and Computer Engineering in 1998 and a PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering, with a speciality in Computer Science, in 2008, and completed his Habilitation in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2021. At the University of the Algarve (UAlg), he served as Pro- and Vice-Rector for Transfer, Innovation, and Digital University from 2017 to 2025, having previously directed the Department of Electrical Engineering and led both the Bachelor’s programme in Information and Communication Technology and the Master’s in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is currently a Full Professor at UAlg’s Institute of Engineering (ISE), where he has taught curricular units in Computer Science and Computer Vision since 1994. Professor Rodrigues is a member of the NOVA LINCS – Algarve research centre, and he has taken part in more than 50 nationally and internationally funded scientific projects, several of which he coordinated. He has published over 250 scientific papers, serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, and has helped organise special issues, tracks, workshops, and international conferences in Computer Science and Computer Vision. His main research interests span Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and Affective Computing, with a particular focus on adaptive interfaces, emotion recognition, human-sense modelling, and human-machine cooperation. 

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João Rodrigues is a Full Professor at the University of the Algarve's (UAlg) Institute of Engineering, holds a PhD and a Habilitation in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and has taught Computer Science and Computer Vision since 1994. He is an integrated member of NOVA LINCS - UAlg research centre and served as UAlg Pro- and Vice-Rector for Transference, Innovation and Digital University (2017-2025). Rodrigues has participated in over 50 funded projects, several as Principal Investigator, and he has co-authored more than 250 scientific publications. His research focuses on Computer Vision, Affective Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, and Human-Centred AI [https://bit.ly/3J5cOjj].

Education

• Habilitation (Agregação), Eletrical and Computer Engineering, UTAD, 2021

• Ph.D., Electronics and Computer Engineering (Major in Computer Sciences), UALG, 2008

• M.Sc., Computer Systems Engineering (Major in Computer Systems), UALG, 1998

• 5 years Bachelor (Licenciatura), Electrical Engineering (Electronics, Instrumentation and Computation), UTAD, 1993

Journals (10 selected; updated mar. 2026)

• Lemos, Marco, Cardoso, Pedro J.S., & Rodrigues, João M.F. (2026) MiE: A Microscopic Model for Real-Time Group Engagement Estimation Using Gaze and Posture. Journal of Computational Science, 96. Journal of Computational Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2026.102856. 

• Martins, Pedro V. Cardoso, Pedro J.S., & Rodrigues, João M.F. (2025). Affective Computing Emotional Body Gesture Recognition: Evolution and the Cream of the Crop. in IEEE ACCESS. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3630563  

• Anguita Molina, Miguel A., Cardoso, Pedro J.S., Rodrigues, João M.F., Medina Quero, Javier, & Polo Rodriguez, Aurora (2025) Multi-Occupancy Activity Recognition based on Deep Learning Models Fusing UWB Localization Heatmaps and Nearby-Sensor Interaction. In IEEE Internet of Things Journal. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3531316   

• Turner, Daniel, Cardoso, Pedro J.S. & Rodrigues, João M.F. (2024). Continual Learning for Object Classification: Integrating AutoML for Binary Classification Tasks within a Modular Dynamic Architecture, in IEEE ACCESS. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3510536 

• Martins, Pedro V. Cardoso, Pedro J.S. & Rodrigues, João M.F. (2024). Affective Computing Databases: In-depth Analysis of Systematic Reviews and Survey, in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2024.3507289  

• Veiga, Ricardo & Rodrigues, João M.F. (2024). Fine-Grained Fish Classification from small to large datasets with Vision Transformers, in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 113642-113660. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3443654 

• Rodrigues, J. M. F., Ramos, C., Pereira, J., Cardo, J., & Cardoso, P. J. S. (2019). Mobile Five Senses Augmented Reality System: Technology Acceptance Study. IEEE ACCESS, vol. 7, pp. 163022-163033.  DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2953003

• Farrajota, M., Rodrigues, J.M.F., & du Buf, J.M.F. (2019). Human Action Recognition in Videos with Articulated Pose Information by Deep Networks. Pattern Analysis and Applications 22(4), 1307-1318. DOI: 10.1007/s10044-018-0727-y

• Martins, Jaime A., Rodrigues, João M.F., & du Buf, J.M.H. (2018). Expression-Invariant Face Recognition using a Biological Disparity Energy Model. Neurocomputing 297, 82-93. DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2018.02.054

• Martins, Jaime A., Rodrigues, João M.F., & du Buf, J.M.H. (2015). Proto-Object Categorisation and Local Gist Vision using Low-Level Spatial Features. BioSystems, vol. 135, pp.35-49. DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.07.001 

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