The CMU Portugal Director at CMU will be awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by Universidade de Lisboa
Professor José Manuel Fonseca de Moura who leads the CMU Portugal Program since its beginning in 2006, will be awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by Universidade de Lisboa, in recognition of his academic, scientific and professional outstanding contributions, worldwide and with a strong impact in Portugal and IST, in signal processing and data science.
In addition to his role as CMU Portugal Director, Professor José Manuel Fonseca de Moura is the Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He was full professor at Técnico in the 1980s and president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE has about 422,000 members in more than 160 countries.
The Doctor Honoris Causa ceremony will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico, on 13th September 2021, at 2:30 p.m and will be held in Portuguese.
Live streaming at: https://ist.pt/nYpVN
