Mario A. T. Figueiredo
Portuguese engineer, academic
Mário A. T. Figueiredo is a Portuguese engineer and academic. He is an IST Distinguished Professor and holds the Feedzai Chair of Machine Learning at IST, University of Lisbon. His research is focused on signal and image processing, and Machine Learning.
Figueiredo is a Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).
Education
In 1990, Figueiredo received his master's degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also earned his Ph.D. and his habilitation (Agregação) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same institute in 1994 and 2004, respectively.
Career
Mário Figueiredo began his academic career in 1994 as an assistant professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at IST, University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2010, he was an associate professor. In 2019, he was became full professor and an IST Distinguished Professor.
Figueiredo has focused his research on machine learning, signal processing and image processing.
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