João Paulo Silva Cunha

João Paulo Silva Cunha (S’86–M’90–SM’04) received the degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering in 1989, the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering 1996, and an “agregação” in electrical engineering in 2009, all from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. He is currently an Associate Professor of bioengineering and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, and a Senior Researcher at INESC-TEC Associate Laboratory (http://www.inesctec.pt ), where he created the BRAIN—Biomedical Research And INnovation—Research Group and co-founded the Center for Biomedical Engineering Research that aggregates ∼30 researchers. He is a Visiting Professor with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Munich, Munich, Germany. He currently serves as Scientific Director of the Carnegie Mellon–Portugal Program (http://www.cmuportugal.org)—an international partnership between Portuguese universities and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, where he has been on the faculty since 2007, and the coordinator of the Center of Competencies for the Future Cities at the University of Porto. His R&D activities are focused on neuroengineering and advanced human sensing technologies. He is the coauthor of more than 250 scientific publications, holding an h-index of 15.