Nuno Roma is an Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon (ULisboa) – Portugal.

He is also a senior researcher at Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID), being a member of the High-Performance Computing Architectures and Systems (HPCAS) research area.

His research is mainly focused on the development and implementation of:

• Specialized computer architectures for digital signal processing,
• High-Performance Computing (HPC) platforms, including parallel processing,
• Embedded systems design,
• Multimedia systems (image and video coding).

Nuno Roma is a Senior Member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and of ACM.

Currently, he is Director of INESC-ID (CFO) and Director of INESC-Serviços.

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Brief biographical sketch:

• Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, 2008;
• M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, 2001;
• B.Sc. degree (5 years course) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1998;
• Born in Entroncamento, Portugal, on January 5, 1975.