Dr. Sancho Oliveira is an Assistant professor at University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal, founder of BioMachines Lab, member at Institute of Telecommunications, and member of VFabLab ISCTE-IUL. His research focuses on autonomous robots, multirobot systems, swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, communication in large-scale systems, complex systems and high performance computing. Sancho Oliveira has a PhD and Master in Physics from Universidade de Lisboa. He is graduated in Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and has 13 years of experience in teaching in subjects like object-orientated programming, parallel and distributed programming, software for intelligent systems, computer architecture and physical computation.

Field of Interests: Autonomous Systems, Multirobot Systems, Communication in large-scale systems

Expertise: Swarm intelligence, Evolutionary computation, Autonomous control