Hugo Paredes

Hugo Paredes is a Full Professor at University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto (UTAD) and Research Coordinator at INESC TEC, Portugal. He holds an B.Eng. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minho and the Habilitation title from UTAD. In 2017 he co-founded Robocode Generation, Lda, a start-up company, UTAD spin off. During 2017 he was a visiting faculty at Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was Pro-Rector for Digital Transition and Administrative Transformation at UTAD (2021-2023) and created the Competence Center on Visualization and Advanced Computing at UTAD in 2021. Currently he is the Director of the PhD program in Informatics at UTAD and coordinates the Centre for Human Centered Computing and Information Science (HumanISE) at INESC TEC. 

His main research interests are in the domain of Human-Centered AI applied to accessibility, active and healthy ageing, and one health. He is a member of EARTO’s Working Group on Healthcare and serves on the board of Health Cluster Portugal, representing INESC TEC. He has co-authored more than 200 scientific papers, and he is one of the inventors of a granted patent. He coordinated the H2020 VR2Care project (Grant 951978), co-PI of the WalkingPAD project (PTDC/MEC-VAS/31161/2017) and has participated and lead several other projects, including national and international projects, with public and private funding.