Another Distinguished Seminar hosted at CISTER

Miguel Velhote Correia from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and Head of the Bioinstrumentation Laboratory of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER) gave a distinguished seminar titled "Wearable Technologies for Sports, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation". In the talk, and the follow-up discussion, he presented the changes in paradigms where wearables enable and promote monitoring and assessment of human activities in sports, physiotherapy and rehabilitation.
Miguel Velhote Correia is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP, since 2002 and with tenure from 2007 onwards. In March 2008, he joined, as a senior research member, INESC Technology and Science – Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto, and is now Head of the Bioinstrumentation Laboratory of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research. Additionally, he is co-founder and technical advisor of Kinematix (formerly Tomorrow Options), an electronic devices start-up company of University of Porto and INESC TEC, founded in 2007. Between 1993 and 2007, he was a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, in the Biomedical Imaging and Vision Computing group (INEB) and previously at the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Centre of Porto at FEUP.
He has participated in more than twenty funded research projects and co-authored over 100 research papers published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.
Miguel Velhote Correia is also a member of the Portuguese Official Engineers Association, the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), through its Portuguese chapter, and co-founder of the Portuguese Experimental Psychology Association (APPE).