Leadership


Interdisciplinary research,
education and capacity building
in advanced digital media


CoLab is governed by a Board chaired by the President of the Portuguese Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).

The overall CoLab program as well as each of its academic areas is headed by a pair of Directors from Portugal and UT Austin, assisted in some cases by Co-Directors.

Ongoing evaluation of CoLab's work is carried out by an External Review Committee of international experts.

Board


João Sentieiro

Board Chair

President of the Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)

 



António Câmara

Board Member

Director, Colab@Portugal

Director, Digital Media

FCT/UNL

Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia; Founder of YDreams

 



David Gibson

Board Member

Director, CoLab@UTAustin

Director, UTEN Austin

UT Austin

Associate Director, IC² Institute

 



Luís Magalhães

Board Member

President, Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC)

 



Robert Peterson

Board Member

UT Austin

Associate Vice President for Research; Professor, McCombs School of Business

 



Juan M. Sanchez

Board Member

UT Austin

Vice President for Research

 


Directors


António Câmara

Board Member

Director, Colab@Portugal

Director, Digital Media

FCT/UNL

Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia; Founder of YDreams

 

Application of computing methods to environmental problems; spatial multimedia.

 

Homepages: UNL, YDreams

Environmental Systems Analysis Group

New University of Lisbon

Faculty of Science and Technology

2829-516 Caparica

Portugal

Phone: 351 212 948 397 Ext. 10119

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David Gibson

Board Member

Director, CoLab@UTAustin

Director, UTEN Austin

UT Austin

Associate Director, IC² Institute

 

2815 San Gabriel St. Austin, TX 78705

+1 512-475-8941

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Artur Pimenta Alves

Co-Director, Digital Media

U.Porto

Professor Catedrático, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Telecommunications Section; researcher, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto (INESC Porto)

 

Digital video and image communications.

 

Homepage: http://www.fe.up.pt/si/funcionarios_geral.FormView?P_CODIGO=208398

Rua Dr. Roberto Frias

s/n 4200-465

Porto

Portugal

Phone: 351 225081819 Ext. 4049

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Isaac Barchas

Co-Director, UTEN Austin

Austin Technology Incubator

Director, ATI

 

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Jay Boisseau

Co-Director, Advanced Computing

UT Austin

Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

 

Homepage: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/about/staff-directory/staff-page/jay-boisseau/

Phone: +1 512-475-9451

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Luis A. Caffarelli

Director, Mathematics

UT Austin

Professor of Mathematics, UT Austin

 

Homepage: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/caffarel/
Phone: +1 512-471-3160

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Nuno Correia

Co-Director, Digital Media

FCT/UNL

Professor, Department of Computer Science and coordinator of the Interactive Multimedia Group at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

 

Describing, processing, delivering, and presenting multimedia information.

 

Homepage: http://www-ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/~nmc/

DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre

2825-114 CAPARICA

Portugal

Phone: 351 1 294 85 41

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Irene Gamba

Co-Director, Mathematics

UT Austin

Professor of Mathematics, UT Austin

 

Homepage: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/gamba/
Phone: +1 512-471-7150

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Diogo Gomes

Director, Mathematics

IST

Professor, Department of Mathematics

 

Homepage: http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/professor.phtml?who=dgomes
Phone: +351 21 841 71 07

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Pedro Medeiros

Co-Director, Advanced Computing

FCT/UNL

Associate Professor of Informatics, FCT/UNL

 

Homepage: http://asc.di.fct.unl.pt/~pm/
Phone: +351 21 294 85 36 Ext. 10738

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Teresa Mendes

Co-Director, UTEN Portugal

Instituto Pedro Nunes

President, Instituto Pedro Nunes; Professor, Department of Informatics Engineering, U.Coimbra

 

Personal page

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José Manuel Mendonça

Director, UTEN Portugal

INESC Porto

President, INESC Porto; Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management, U.Porto

 

Contact page

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Keshav Pingali

Director, Advanced Computing

UT Austin

Professor of Computer Sciences

 

Homepage: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pingali/
Phone: +1 512-232-6567

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Alberto José Proença

Director, Advanced Computing

U. Minho

Professor of Computer Science

 

Alberto Proença is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Universidade do Minho. He led the University Computer Center for several years and now leads the HPC facilities at the University. His main interests are on Computer Architecture and Scalar Heterogeneous Computing.

 

Personal page

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Luís Silva

Co-Director, Advanced Computing

U.Coimbra

Associate Professor of Informatics Engineering

 

Homepage: http://cisuc.dei.uc.pt/sse/view_member.php?id_m=227

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Sharon Strover

Director, Digital Media

UT Austin

Professor and Chair of the Department of Radio-Television-Film; director, Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute (TIPI)

 

Current research projects include examinations of telecommunications networks and policies, telecommunications infrastructure in rural regions, the "digital divide," and telehealth networks. The topics of some recently completed work include an assessment of Internet connectivity in four states, an assessment of the local and state roles in developing telecommunications infrastructure, Internet content standards for children, as well as a study looking at how several industrialized countries have sought to become Information Societies, with a special focus on deregulation tools.

 

Homepage: http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/sstrover.html

University of Texas at Austin

Department of Radio-TV-Film

1 University Station A0800

Austin, TX 78712-0108

USA

Phone: +1 512 471 6652

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Luís Nunes Vicente

Co-Director, Mathematics

U.Coimbra

Associate Professor of Mathematics, U. Coimbra

 

Homepage: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~lnv/
Phone: +351 23 979 11 71 x321

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External Review Committee


David W. Walker

ERC Chair

University of Cardiff

Professor of High Performance Computing

 

Collaborative problem-solving environments and portals to support computational science; software infrastructure for Grid computing

 

Personal site

+44 (0) 29 2087-4205

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Josep Blat

ERC member

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Professor, Interactive Technologies Group

 

Cooperative environments; intelligent web portals; educational telematics; multimedia and GIS; computational educational toys

 

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Glorianna Davenport

ERC Member

MIT

Principal Research Scientist, MIT Media Laboratory

 

Interactive cinema; customizable, personalisable storyteller systems

 

Personal site

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Bob Hodgson

ERC Member

Managing Director, Zernike (UK)

 

Economic development; technology commercialization; management of scientific facilities

 

+44 (0) 1223 528980

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Benoît Perthame

ERC Member

École Normale Supérieure

Professor of Mathematics

 

Mathematical analysis and numerical analysis of nonlinear Partial Differential Equations issued from mathematical physics, biology and engineering sciences

 

Personal site

+33 1 44 32 20 36