Catarina Silva is Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She has a PhD degree in Computer Engineering, with 25 years experience teaching Computer Engineering BSc and MSc, while also supervising MSc and PhD students. She is a senior researcher at the Adaptive Computation Group of CISUC with machine learning and pattern recognition as main areas of research. More specific recent research projects on Smart Farming and Sustainability (PRR); Transparency in AI in Finance (COST); Industry 4.0 Circular and Agile Manufacturing and individualized consumer preferences (H2020); Real-time Condition-based Maintenance for Adaptive Aircraft Maintenance Planning (H2020); Real-time monitoring of ambient air quality with low-cost nano-sensors (Sudoe); Natural Language Processing (P2020).
Skilled at managing different sized projects and scientific entrepreneurships, involving people with different backgrounds, namely faculty, students, alumni, and companies. Author and co-author of 4 books, circa 30 journal articles and 120 conference papers. Scientific committee and paper reviewer of several conferences and journals. Board member of the Portuguese Association of Pattern Recognition, IEEE senior member of the Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE past chair of the Portuguese Section.