Short Bio

Ana Alves is, since 2007, a member of the Ambient Intelligence Laboratory (AmILab) of the Cognitive and Media Systems (CMS) group, integrated into the Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). Her research is dedicated mainly to the organization of urban spaces and how people use them by influencing mobility patterns and land use analysis. The information to support this analysis is mined primarily from the Web and social networks and consists mainly of textual data. Learning to interconnect and represent this information is also a challenging research question to which she is devoted. She has also been an Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC), namely in the Coimbra Institute of Engineering (ISEC) since 2000, lecturing courses on programming, operating systems, ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence. Holding a PhD in Science and Information Technology since 2012, an MSc. in Informatics and Systems in 2004 (pre-bologna), and a 5-year bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering in 2000 from the University of Coimbra, Ana Alves is also a member of scientific associations such as Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Association (APPIA - Associação Portuguesa Para a Inteligência Artificial); Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL); and Registered researcher at the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia).