Luis Miguel Pinho is Coordinator Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering – School of Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP), where he leads research in areas such as real-time software, programming languages, concurrency and parallelism. He has a MSc (1997) and a PhD (2001) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Porto, and the Habilitation title in Informatics Engineering (2023) from the same university.
Miguel has participated in more than 30 research projects. He was Project Coordinator and Technical Manager of the FP7 R&D European Project P-SOCRATES (Parallel SOftware framework for time-CRitical mAny-core sysTEmS) and local coordinator in the H2020 ELASTIC, H2020 AMPERE and ITEA Panorama projects. In the past, Miguel was also Coordinator of CooperatES and Reflect FCT-funded Research Projects, and local Coordinator of H2020 EnerGAware, FP5 NNES REMPLI, Artemis ENCOURAGE and ITEA 2 CarCoDe projects, among others.
His main research interest is on the software infrastructure for real-time embedded systems, in particular languages and operating systems. He is especially interested in Ada, the best language for real-time embedded systems. Miguel is a member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9 and board member of Ada-Europe.
Miguel has published more than 150 papers in international conferences and journals in the area of embedded computing systems, and participated in the Organization and Program Committees of several international conferences in the area. He served as General Chair and Program Co-Chair of the Ada-Europe 2006 conference, was a Keynote Speaker at RTCSA 2010 and Program Co-Chair of Ada-Europe 2012 and RTNS 2016. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Ada User Journal, from 2007 to 2019, and is currently Technical Editor of ACM Ada Letters. He is a member of the HiPEAC network of excellence and the CERCIRAS Cost action.
Miguel was Pro-President for Research and Innovation at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto from 2018 to 2022, being responsible for the connection with the research groups of the Institute, the submission and execution of projects, the relationship with external entities and the promotion of research, development and innovation at the Institute and its Schools. During this period, he was also responsible for the Porto Research, Technology & Innovation Center, Polytechnic’s of Porto ecosystem for Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.