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Rui Alexandre de Matos Araújo ISR-Institute for Systems and Robotics DEEC-Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Coimbra, Polo II PT-3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal Email: rui@isr.uc.pt, rui@deec.uc.pt Phone: +351-239.796276 (direct) / 239.796200 (switching) Discord: rui_araujo

Short bio:

• Associate Professor with Habilitation and Tenure at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Coimbra.

• Founding member of the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) where he is now a senior researcher.

• Habilitation degree in Electrical Engineering and Intelligent Systems from the University of Coimbra, 2024.

• Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Coimbra, 2000.

• M.Sc. degree in Systems and Automation from the University of Coimbra, 1994.

• Licenciatura degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Coimbra, 1991.

• Rui Araújo received the B.Sc. degree (5 years "Licenciatura") in Electrical Engineering, the M.Sc. degree in Systems and Automation, the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering, and the Habilitation degree ("Agregação") in Electrical Engineering and Intelligent Systems from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 1991, 1994, 2000, and 2024 respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Coimbra where he is currently an Associate Professor. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a founding member of the Portuguese Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Coimbra), where he is now a senior researcher.

• Research interests include: computational intelligence, intelligent control, computational learning, machine learning, fuzzy systems, neural networks, optimization, modeling, simulation, estimation, prediction, control, big data, robotics, mobile robotics and intelligent vehicles, robot manipulators, sensing, soft sensors, space systems, automation, industrial systems, energy systems, embedded systems, real-time systems, and in general architectures and systems for controlling robot manipulators, mobile robots, intelligent vehicles, and industrial systems.

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• Editor of the Visual GNC for Orbital and Planetary Robotics research topic, at the Frontiers in Robotics and AI journal, 2020.

• Editorial Board Member, at the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, since September 2020.   Web of Science, Journal Impact Factor (2020): 5.978.

• Editorial Board Member, at the Applied Sciences Journal, Section Board on “Computing and Artificial Intelligence”, since December 2019.   Web of Science, Journal Impact Factor (2020): 2.679.

• Guest editor of the Intelligent Manufacturing, Robotics, and Control Engineering special issue, at the Computers, Materials & Continua journal (Tech Science Press), 2024-2025.

• Guest Editor of the Advances and Applications of Complex Data Analysis and Computing special issue, of the Computing and Artificial Intelligence Section, at the Applied Sciences journal (MDPI), 2024-2025.

• Editor-in-Chief, at the Topic on Soft Computing, of MDPI, involving the journals Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Information, Future Internet, Algorithms.

• Editor of the Control and Soft Computing special issue, of the Computing and Artificial Intelligence Section, at the Applied Sciences journal (MDPI), 2019-2020.

• Associate Editor at the International Program Committee at the “34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025)”, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 25-29, 2025.

• Technical Program Committee (TPC) member at the “International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML 2025)”, Kunming, China, August 22-24, 2025.

• Technical Program Committee member at the “2025 9th IEEE/SPIE/Springer International Conference on Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering (CCIE 2025)”, Hangzhou, China, September 19-21, 2025.

• Technical Program Committee member at the “2025 7th International Conference on Mechatronics Systems and Control Engineering (ICMSCE 2025)”, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, April 16-18, 2025.

• Committee member at the “International Connect & Expo on Electronics and Electrical Engineering (ELECTROCONNECT 2025)”, Osaka, Japan, October 13-15, 2025.

• Publication Chair at the “2025 International Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligenc (CVPRAI 2025)”, Qingdao, China, August 29-31, 2025.

• Technical Program Committee member at the “2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and New Productivity (AINP 2025)”, Wuhan, China, May 18-19, 2025.

• Event Committee member at the “5th International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences (ASEC 2024)”, Online, December 04-06, 2024.

• Associate Editor at the International Program Committee at the “33th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024)”, Pasadena, California, USA, August 26-30, 2024.

• International Program Committee member at the “21th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2024)”, Porto, Portugal, November 18-20, 2024.

• Technical Program Committee member at the “2024 7th International Conference on Control, Robotics and Informatics (ICCRI 2024)”, University of Danang, Danang, Vietnam, July 26-28, 2024.

• Technical Program Committee member at the “2024 International Conference on Mechanical Manufacturing, Robotics and Control Engineering (MMRCE 2024)”, Chongqing, China, 29-30 June, 2024.

• Scientific Committee member at the “19th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2024)”, Salamanca, Spain, June 25-28, 2024.

• Technical Program Committee member at “The 22nd IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON 2024)”, Porto, Portugal, June 25-27, 2024.

• Associate Editor at the Conference Editorial Board at the “2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024)”, Yokohama, Japan, May 13-17, 2024.

• Program Committee member at “Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference - (Robot 2023)”, Coimbra, Portugal, on November, 22-24, 2023.

• Associate Editor at the International Program Committee at the “32th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023)”, Busan, Korea, August 28-31, 2023.

• International Program Committee member at the “20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2023)”, Rome, Italy, November 13-15, 2023.

• Scientific Committee member at the “18th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2023)”, Aveiro, Portugal, June 20-23, 2023.

• Associate Editor at the Conference Editorial Board at the “2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)”, London, England, May 29 - June 2, 2023.

• Program Committee member at “Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference - (Robot 2022)”, Zaragoza, Spain, on November, 23-25, 2022.

• Information Technology Chair at “IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Safety for Robotics (ISR 2022)”, Coimbra, Portugal, September, 2022.

• Associate Editor at the International Program Committee at the “31th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)”, Naples, Italy, August 29 - September 2, 2022.

• International Program Committee member at the “19th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2022)”, Lisbon, Portugal, July 14-16, 2022.

• Scientific Committee member at the “17th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2022)”, Madrid, Spain, June 22-25, 2022.

• Associate Editor at the Conference Editorial Board at the “2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022)”, Philadelphia (PA), USA, May 23-27, 2022.

• Associate Editor at the International Program Committee at the “30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021)”, Virtual, University of British Columbia and University of Waterloo, Canada, August 8-12, 2021.

• Program Committee member at the “The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IEEE IRC 2021)”, Taichung, Taiwan, November 15-17, 2021.

• Scientific Committee member at the “16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2021)”, Chaves, Portugal, June 23-26, 2021.

• International Program Committee member at the “18th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2021)”, Lieusaint - Paris, France, July 6-8, 2021.

• Associate Editor at the International Program Committee at the “29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)”, Naples, Italy, August 31 - September 4, 2020.

• Program Committee member at the “IEEE International Conference on Smart Data Services (SMDS 2020)”, Beijing, China, July 7-11, 2020.

• International Program Committee member at the “17th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2020)”, Lieusaint - Paris, France, July 7-9, 2020.

• International Program Committee member at the “14th APCA International Conference on Automatic Control and Soft Computing (CONTROLO 2020)”, Bragança, Portugal, July 1-3, 2020.

• Scientific Committee member at the “15th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2020)”, Coimbra, Portugal, June 24-27, 2020.

• Technical Program Committee member at the Special Track on Operating Systems of the “The 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2020)”, Brno, Czech Republic, March 30-April 3, 2020.

• Program Committee member at the “The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IEEE IRC 2020)”, Taichung, Taiwan, March 9-11, 2020.

• Program Committee member at “Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference - (Robot 2019)”, Porto, Portugal, November 20-22, 2019.

• Associate Editor at the International Program Committee at the “28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019)”, New Delhi, India, October 14-18, 2019.

• International Program Committee member at the “16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2019)”, Prague, Czech Republic, July 29-31, 2019.

• Scientific Committee member at the “14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2019)”, Coimbra, Portugal, June 19-22, 2019.

• Program Committee member at the “The Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IEEE IRC 2019)”, Naples, Italy, February 25-27, 2019.

• Technical Program Committee member at the Special Track on Operating Systems of the “The 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2019)”, Limassol, Cyprus, April 8-12, 2019.

• Program Committee member at the “The Third IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (IEEE ICCC 2019)”, Milan, Italy, July 8-13, 2019.

• Associate Editor at the International Program Committee at the “27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018)”, NanJing-Tai'An, China, August 27-31, 2018.

• International Program Committee member at the “15th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2018)”, Porto, Portugal, July 29-31, 2018.

• Program Committee member at the “The Second IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (IEEE ICCC 2018)”, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 2-7, 2018.

• Scientific Commission member at the “13th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2018)”, Cáceres, Spain, June 13-16, 2018.

• Communication Chair at the “13th APCA International Conference on Control and Soft Computing (CONTROLO 2018)”, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal, on 4-6 June 2018.

• Technical Program Committee member at the Special Track on Operating Systems of the “The 33th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2018)”, Pau, France, April 9-13, 2018.

• Program Committee member at “Third Iberian Robotics Conference - (Robot 2017)”, Seville, Spain, November 22-24, 2017.

• Associate Editor at the International Program Committee at the “26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2017)”, Lisbon, Portugal, August 28 - September 1, 2017.

• Information Technology Chair at “26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2017)”, Lisbon, Portugal, August 28 - September 1, 2017.

• International Program Committee member at the “14th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2017)”, Madrid, Spain, July 29-31, 2017.

• Scientific Commission member at the “12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2017)”, Lisbon, Portugal, June 14-17, 2017.

• Technical Program Committee member at the Special Track on Operating Systems of the “The 32th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2017)”, Marrakesh, Morocco, April 3-7, 2017.

• Scientific Committee member at the “12th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control (CONTROLO 2016)”, Guimarães, Portugal, September 14-16, 2016.

• International Program Committee member at the “13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2016)”, Lisbon, Portugal, July 29-31, 2016.

• Technical Program Committee member at the Special Track on Operating Systems of the “The 31th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2016)”, Pisa, Italy, April 4-8, 2016.

• Technical Program Committee member at the Special Track on Operating Systems of the “The 30th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2015)”, Salamanca, Spain, April 13-17, 2015.

• International Program Committee member at the “12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2015)”, Colmar, Alsace, France, July 21-23, 2015.

• Technical Program Committee member at the “The 4th International conference on Consumer Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet 2014)”, Beijing, China, December 20-22, 2014.

• International Program Committee member at the “11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2014)”, 2014, Vienna, Austria, September 1-3.

• International Program Committee member at the “10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2013)”, July 29-31, 2013, Reykjavik, Iceland.

• International Program Committee member at the “17th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2012)”, Track on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Kraków, Poland, September 17-21, 2012.

• International Program Committee member at the “9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2012)”, Rome, Italy, July 28-31, 2012.

• Information Technology Chair at “IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012)”, Vilamoura-Algarve, Portugal, October 7-11, 2012.

• International Program Committee member at the “15th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)”, Track on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Bilbao, Spain, September 13-16, 2010.

• Information Technology Chair at “13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2010)”, Madeira Island, Portugal, 19-22 September.

• International Program Committee member at the “14th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2009)”, Track on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Mallorca, Spain, September 22-26, 2009.

• International Program Committee member at the “13th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2008)”, Track on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, September 15-18, 2008.

• International Program Committee member at the “IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2007)”, Sanya, China, December 15-18, 2007.

• International Program Committee member at the “12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2007)”, Track on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Patras, Greece, September 25-28, 2007.

• International Program Committee member at the “IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2006)”, Kunming, China, December 17-20, 2006.

• Information Technologies Chair at “The 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2003)”, University of Coimbra, Portugal, June 30 - July 3, 2003.

• Date of birth: 1968-04-20.