short bio: Alípio M. Jorge is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto where he currently is the director of the
Masters in Computer Science and member of the managing board of the department. He is
the coordinator of LIAAD (started 2012), the Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Lab of UP. LIAAD is a unit of INESC TEC since 2007. Previously it was part of LIACC. He also collaborates with
EGP-UPBS, the University of Porto Business School.
He is PhD in Computer Science by U. Porto, MSc. on Foundations of Advanced Information Technology by the Imperial College and BSc. in Applied Maths and Computer Science, currently Computer Science (U. Porto). His research interests are Data Mining and Machine Learning, in particular association rules, web intelligence and data mining for decision support. His research also includes Inductive Logic Programming and Collaborative Data Mining. He lectures courses related to information processing, data mining, decision support and database marketing. While at the Faculty of Economics, where he stayed from 1996 to 2009, he launched, with other colleagues, the MSc. on Data Analysis and Decisison Support Systems, which he coordinated from 2000 to April 2008. He lead research projects on data mining and web intelligence. He co-chaired international conferences (Discovery Science 2009, ECML/PKDD 05 and EPIA 01), workshops and seminars in data mining and artificial intelligence. He was Vice-President of APPIA the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence from 2000 to 2006 where he had other managing roles until 2011.
Alípio jorge
short bio: Alípio M. Jorge is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto where he currently is the director of the Masters in Computer Science and member of the managing board of the department. He is the coordinator of LIAAD (started 2012), the Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Lab of UP. LIAAD is a unit of INESC TEC since 2007. Previously it was part of LIACC. He also collaborates with EGP-UPBS, the University of Porto Business School. He is PhD in Computer Science by U. Porto, MSc. on Foundations of Advanced Information Technology by the Imperial College and BSc. in Applied Maths and Computer Science, currently Computer Science (U. Porto). His research interests are Data Mining and Machine Learning, in particular association rules, web intelligence and data mining for decision support. His research also includes Inductive Logic Programming and Collaborative Data Mining. He lectures courses related to information processing, data mining, decision support and database marketing. While at the Faculty of Economics, where he stayed from 1996 to 2009, he launched, with other colleagues, the MSc. on Data Analysis and Decisison Support Systems, which he coordinated from 2000 to April 2008. He lead research projects on data mining and web intelligence. He co-chaired international conferences (Discovery Science 2009, ECML/PKDD 05 and EPIA 01), workshops and seminars in data mining and artificial intelligence. He was Vice-President of APPIA the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence from 2000 to 2006 where he had other managing roles until 2011.
