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José Miguel Sales Dias holds a BSc (1985), an MSc (1988), both in Electrical and Computer Engineering (IST-UTL, Portugal) and a Ph.D. (1998) in Computer Graphics and Multimedia from ISCTE-IUL, Portugal, where he was an Associate Professor until 2005, holding currently an Invited Associate Professor position, teaching and conducting research in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented reality, Ambient Assisted Living and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Invited Associate Professor at NOVA IMS teaching Human-Computer Interaction in Information Systems degree. Coordinates the Digital Living Spaces group of ISTAR-IUL, an R&D unit of ISCTE-IUL (http://istar.iscte-iul.pt/index.php/Digital_Living_Spaces). From early 2017, holds a position as a member of the Board of Directors of ADENE (www.adenet.pt), the Portuguese Energy Agency. Has been involved in entrepreneurship initiatives. Past Director of the first European R&D Centre in Speech and natural HCI technologies of Microsoft Corporation, in Portugal (Microsoft Language Development Center, MLDC), from 2005, and during 11 years, where collaborated closely with global product groups (USA, China, Europe) and local teams of marketing, sales and services. Regularly commissioned by the EU and Portuguese Ministry of Economy for R&D project evaluations and reviews. Author of 1 patent, author, co-author or editor of 11 scientific books or journal editions, 12 indexed papers in international journals, 26 chapters in indexed international books, 144 other publications, workshops or keynotes in international conferences. Since 1992 participated or participates in 33 International R&D projects (ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS, TELEMATICS, TEN-IBC, EUREKA, INTERREG, FP5 IST-IPS, FP6 IST, ESA, Marie Curie, AAL, ACP), and 15 Portuguese (FCT, QREN, NITEC, POSC, POCTI, POSI, ICPME, TIT). Obtained 5 scientific prizes. Member of ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, ISCA and IEEE; editorial boards of several journals; several IPCs of National and International conferences in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Speech, Accessibility, and Ambient Assisted Living. Past President of ADETTI - ISCTE-IUL R&D center. Past Vice-president of the GPCG, Eurographics Portuguese Chapter. Born on December 1st, 1961, happy father of two girls and one boy. More information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel_Dias2/ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1445-2695 https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=48Zq8ecAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT