Professor Luís Cavique (BS, MS, PhD) has been a tenured Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Section in the Department of Sciences and Technology at Portuguese Open University, Universidade Aberta (UAb), Portugal, since 2008. He was head of his section and coordinator of several bachelor's and master's courses in UAb.
He graduated Computer Science Engineering from the New University of Lisbon in 1988. He received the MSc degree in Operational Research and Systems Engineering from Technical Lisbon University in 1994 and the PhD degree in Systems Engineering from Technical Lisbon University in 2002.
He has professional experience in companies; he worked as a system engineer in commercial banking computer systems from 1988 to 1991. He worked in the Polytechnic Education System from 1991 to 2008 as Adjunct Professor at the Setubal and the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute.
His research areas are in the intersection of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, particularly in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of some Computer Science papers in Q1 and Q2 journals and has written over 200 scientific works for peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His scientific articles have been published in the Journal of Operational Research Society, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Social Network Analysis and Mining, Expert Systems, Data in Brief, and Computers in Industry. Regularly, he participates in program committees of international conferences in the area of Machine Learning. He regularly attends the WorldCIST, IDEAL and SOCO conferences and the EPIA-KDBI (Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence in the EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence) as co-organizer.
He is a member of LASIGE at Lisbon University and collaborates with Distance Education and E-learning Laboratory, LE@D in UAb. He has participated in some research projects and supervised some MS and PhD thesis. In the field of knowledge dissemination, he is the editor of the Computer Science Journal (RCC) in UAb.