About
Tiago Pinto got his PhD in 2016 from the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, his MSC in Computer Science - Knowledge and Decision Support (2011) and BSc in Computer Science (2008) from the Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP/IPP). Tiago is an Assistant Professor at UTAD (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro) and a senior researcher at INESC-TEC. He is also the Chair of IEEE PES Working Group on Multi-Agent Systems and Vice-Chair of IEEE PES Task Force on Open Data Sets. He has participated or participates in more than 45 national and international research projects, 7 of them as Project Coordinator, 1 as Co - Principal Investigator, 5 as Country coordinator. Tiago has published more than 70 papers in international journals, 16 book chapters and 8 edited books. He has also published more than 200 papers in international conferences. He has supervised/co-supervised multiple students (11 PhD, 3 concluded, 41 MSc, 21 concluded, 56 BSc, 51 concluded; and several international students from exchange programs such as EASMUS and PROPICIE). Tiago has a long experience in the organization of conferences, workshops, special sessions, tutorials and panel sessions in multiple relevant international congresses, such as IEEE PES-GM, IEEE SSCI, AAMAS, IJCAI, ECAI; and of special issues edition in international SCI journals. Tiago has received 19 prizes and awards. The main research interests are Artificial Intelligence (multiagent systems, machine learning, game theory, automated negotiation, metaheuristic optimization) in the domains of Power and Energy Systems (manly electricity markets, smart grid and building energy management) and Industry and mobility (including the development of intelligent solutions for enhanced productivity, management and operation of factories, and the development of innovative solutions for electrical vehicles).