Prof Dr Victor Lobo

Victor José de Almeida e Sousa Lobo was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, in 1965. He completed a 5 year degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Lisbon, a MSc degree in Computer Engineering (computer science) at the New University of Lisbon, and a PhD also in Computer Engineering at the New University of Lisbon. In 2007 he was given the “agregação” degree (roughly equivalent to the French “Habilitation”) by the Statistics and Information Management Institute of the New University of Lisbon. He served as an officer in the Portuguese Navy from 1989 to 1991, and has been a civilian professor at the Portuguese Naval Academy since 1993, where he is currently Associate Professor. He is also deputy director of the Portuguese Navy Research Center since February 2010. He was faculty adjunct at San Diego State University during several short periods from 1997 to 2002, and invited professor at the French Naval Academy during the fall semester of 2008. He was invited professor for a semester at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon, and at ISCTE, and has been invited professor at the Statistics and Information Management Institute of the New University of Lisbon since 2003. He is author of over 60 papers in scientific journals, proceedings of international conferences, and proceedings of national conferences. He has participated in various research projects, and been principal investigator in two of them. He has supervised 3 PhD students, over 20 MSc students, and over 50 final projects of engineering graduates.