Joao Sousa

Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from Porto University in Portugal. PhD and an MSc in Electrical Engineering, both of which were awarded by the University of Porto.

His research interests include autonomous underwater, surface and air vehicles, planning and execution control for networked vehicle systems, optimization and control, cyber-physical systems, and applications of networked vehicle systems to the ocean sciences, security and defence.

2002, Luso-American Foundation Fellowship by the Portuguese Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley. 2008, he received an outstanding teaching award from Porto University.

In the past 35 years he was involved in several projects (Center for Intelligent Robotics for Space Exploration, Rensselaer’s Polytechnic Institute, University of California at Berkeley, IEEE Robotics and Automation Multi-robots Systems Technical Committee and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Marine Systems Technical Committee. He is also an advisor for the editorial board of several scientific journals, several NATO committees Advisory Board of the Swedish Marine Robotics Center.