Centro de Investigação Tecnológica do Algarve (CINTAL)

Jânio Monteiro is a Professor of the Institute of Engineering, Universidade do Algarve, in Portugal. He graduated in Electrical and Computers Engineering in 1995 from the University of Porto, and later concluded a Master and PhD degrees respectively in 2003 and 2010, also in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2003, he is a member INESC-ID Lisbon. He is the President of the Board of Directors of CINTAL, a Technological Research Center of the Algarve. He participated in 9 European R&D projects funded by the European Union, 2 as Principal Investigator (PI), and 8 national projects, with local companies, 2 as PI. He was the editor of 6 books and published more than 70 scientific works. He was a founding member of the International Congress of Engineering and Sustainability (INCREaSE, increase.ualg.pt), of the workshop in Smart Systems (smartsys.ualg.pt), and has participated in the organizing committee of several international conferences. He is also a member of the coordination team of the Culatra 2030 project, a pilot project supported by the Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat, that aims to create a Sustainable Community in the Culatra Island, in Portugal. His main areas of interest involve Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Smart Grids, Communication Networks and Machine Learning.