Biography:Joaquim Jorge (computer scientist)

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Joaquim Jorge
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Born
Joaquim Armando Pires Jorge

(1959-06-03) June 3, 1959 (age 64)
NationalityPortuguese
Alma materInstituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon (BSEE)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MSc, PhD)
AwardsIEEE Distinguished Contributor
IEEE Distinguished Visitor
ACM Distinguished Member
ACM Distinguished Speaker
Eurographics Fellow (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsVirtual reality
Computer graphics
HCI
Artificial intelligence[1]
InstitutionsInstituto Superior Técnico
ThesisParsing adjacency grammars for calligraphic interfaces (1995)
Doctoral advisorEphraim Glinert
Websiteweb.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/jorgej

Joaquim Armando Pires Jorge holds the UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality [2] and is University Professor in Computer Science Department at Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa and senior researcher at INESC-ID. He serves as an elected member of the Board of Governors[3] of the IEEE Computer Society since 2023. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Victoria University Wellington (VUW)[4] since 2022 and an Honorary Invited Professor at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro[5] (2022). He is a Fellow of the Eurographics Association, a Distinguished Member and Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Distinguished Visitor, and Distinguished Contributor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Membre Libre of the Académie nationale de chirurgie (French National Academy of Surgery). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Computers and Graphics Journal (Elsevier).

Education

Joaquim Jorge received his Bachelor of Engineering from Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico in 1984. He received his MSc and Ph.D.[6] degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He completed his Agregação (Habilitation) degree from Instituto Superior Técnico in 2002. His dissertation onParsing Adjacency grammars for Calligraphic Interfaces,[6] was supervised by Ephraim Glinert.[7]

Career and research

Shortly after receiving his Ph.D., Joaquim Jorge joined the newly formed Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico as an assistant professor. After completing his Habilitation in 2002, he was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2004, and full professor in 2008. Jorge was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt for the academic year 1999-2000, an Adjunct Professor of the University of Calgary's Computer Science Department from 2006-2018, and a visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna in the academic year 2013-2014. He was an Elected Executive Member of the ACM Europe Council from 2015-2019. He was the Journal Papers Chair for IEEEVR2020, held on March 22-26 2020 (virtually),[8] and was conference co-chair of IEEEVR2021,[9] held Mar 27-April 3, 2021 in Lisbon (Virtually), and IEEEVR2022.[10] He was the Scientific Program Co-Chair of Eurographics 2016, held in Lisbon from 9-13 May 2016.[11] A former member of the Editorial Board of Computer Graphics Forum, he serves on the Editorial Boards of the Springer Virtual Reality Journal[12] and the Springer/Nature Human–Computer Interaction Series.[13] He has co-authored over 300 papers, books, and peer-reviewed conference articles. As of 2023, Jorge has graduated 17 PhD students.[14] He has been listed as a top Computer Science Researcher in Portugal in 2022 and 2023.[15] and ranked among the world's top 2% Computer Scientists by a Stanford study in 2022.[16] His works have been cited over 10000 times and he has over 53 articles with 53 or more citations according to Google Scholar.[1] His work is listed in Scopus,[17] DBLP[18] and ORCID.[19] He is the co-editor of a Springer book on Digital Anatomy[20] and a widely cited survey about Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling[21]

Honors and awards

  • 2022 UNESCO Chair on AI & XR[2]
  • 2022 Membre Libre of the Academie Nationale de Chirurgie[22]
  • 2022 IEEE Distinguished Visitor[23]
  • 2021 IEEE Distinguished Contributor[24]
  • 2017 ACM Distinguished Member[25]
  • 2015 ACM Distinguished Speaker[26]
  • 2013 IFIP Silver Core Award[27]
  • 2010 Eurographics Fellow[28]
  • 2007 ACM Senior Member[29]
  • 2001 IEEE Senior Member

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Google Scholar Page". Google. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RgiMdpAAAAAJ. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "List of Active UNESCO Chairs". UNESCO. https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/list-unesco-chairs.pdf. 
  3. ↑ "Board of Governors". IEEECS. https://www.computer.org/volunteering/board-of-governors/members. 
  4. ↑ "Visiting Professors". VUW. https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/ecs/about/academic-visitors. 
  5. ↑ "Professors List". PUC. https://www.inf.puc-rio.br/blog/professor/joaquim-jorge/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Jorge, Joaquim. "Thesis Link". https://www.proquest.com/openview/7c2536eed97450051d5e467974f7e8df/. 
  7. ↑ "Math genealogy Project". https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=174914. 
  8. ↑ "IEEE VR 2020". IEEE CS. https://ieeevr.org/2020/committees/conference-committee/. 
  9. ↑ "IEEE VR 2021". IEEE CS. https://ieeevr.org/2021/committees/conference-committee/. 
  10. ↑ "IEEE VR 2022". https://ieeevr.org/2022/committees/conference-committee/. 
  11. ↑ "Org Committee Eg 2016". Eurographics. https://gpcg.pt/eurographics2016/local-organizing-commitee/index-1.htm. 
  12. ↑ "Editorial Board". Springer. https://www.springer.com/journal/10055/editors. 
  13. ↑ "Editorial Board". https://www.springer.com/series/6033/editors. 
  14. ↑ Jorge, Joaquim. "Professor". https://web.ist.utl.pt/jorgej. 
  15. ↑ "research Leders". https://research.com/u/joaquim-armando-pire. 
  16. ↑ "Top 2% Computer Scientists". https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4. 
  17. ↑ "ScopusID". Scopus. https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=22333907900. 
  18. ↑ "DBLP". DBLP. https://dblp.org/pid/j/JoaquimAJorge.html. 
  19. ↑ "OrcidID". ORCID. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5441-4637. 
  20. ↑ Jorge, Joaquim; Uhl, Jean-François et al. (15 May 2022). Digital Anatomy. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-61907-7. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-61905-3. Retrieved 11 July 2023. 
  21. ↑ Olsen, Luke; Samavati, Faramarz; Jorge, Joaquim (2 February 2009). "Sketch-based modeling: A survey". Computers & Graphics 33 (1): 85-103. doi:10.1016/j.cag.2008.09.013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2008.09.013. Retrieved 11 July 2023. 
  22. ↑ "Joaquim Jorge". https://www.academie-chirurgie.fr/presentation/annuaire-des-membres/2046. 
  23. ↑ "Joaquim Jorge". IEEE. https://www.computer.org/profiles/joaquim-jorge. 
  24. ↑ Jorge, Joaquim Armando Pires. "IEEE Distinguished Contributors page". IEEE. https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/insider/ieee-computer-society-distinguished-contributors. 
  25. ↑ "ACM Distinguished Member". ACM. https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/jorge_3034998. 
  26. ↑ "ACM Distinguished Speaker page". ACM. https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/jorge_6343. 
  27. ↑ "TC13 Awards". IFIP. https://ifip-tc13.org/awards/. 
  28. ↑ "Eurographics Fellows 2010". Eurographics. https://www.eg.org/wp/fellows/new-fellows-2010/. 
  29. ↑ "ACM Senior Member". ACM. https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/jorge_3034998. 



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