José Carlos Príncipe was born in Porto on the 13^th April 1950. His current research area is Electrical Engineering, (signal processing). His fields of interest are adaptive systems theory, nonlinear signal processing, computational neuroengineering, machine learning, nonlinear dynamics, intelligent systems theory and brain machine interfaces. He has also been involved in biomedical signal processing, in particular the electroencephalogram (EEG), and the modeling and applications of adaptive systems.

At the moment he is a distinguished professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, a BellSouth Professor of the Department the Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida, Gainesville, where he teaches advanced signal processing and artificial neural networks (ANN’s) modeling.  

In addition to this, in Portugal, he is an invited chaired professor at the Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores in the Faculdade de Engenharia of Universidade do Porto (DEE-FEUP) and is the director of the doctoral program of that department.

He is also co-founder of NeuroDimension, a company which is the world's leading provider of neural network development tools and he provides technical direction for the development of new products and is responsible of secured research grant funding for the company.

He concluded his Licenciatura in Electrical Engineering at Universidade of Porto in 1972 and he took both his master, in 1974 financed by an ITT scholarship, and his PhD, in 1979 by a fullbright scholarship, at the University of Florida, Gainesville. In 1985 he achieved the degree of agregado in the Universidade of Aveiro.

Until 1987 he was a chaired professor of Universidade of Aveiro at the Department of Electronic and Telecommunications, which he founded in 1975 together with Alte da Veiga and Pedro Guedes de Oliveira. He then went with a sabbatical license and no financial support from an institution, to the University of Florida and there, he was offered a place as an associated professor.

Since he went to the USA he has never changed research institution (University of Florida). Like every other professor he has worked hard teaching advanced courses, doing research of high quality and being interested by other activities.

He is the author of more than 450 refereed publications (3 books, 4 edited books, 14 book chapters, 130 journal papers and 301 conference proceedings). He holds 5 patents and has submitted nine more. He is too, a reviewer of several international scientific journals.

José C. Príncipe is an independent investigator and, since 1991, he is the founder and director of Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory (www.cnel.ufl.edu). ).

Currently he has five investigation projects in activity. He has already directed or co-directed more than 50 research projects funded by National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, DARPA, Office of Naval Research, NASA, MIT/Lincoln Labs, Lockeed Martin, Honeywell which in total represent an investment of more than 25 millions of dollars.

At the moment he has under his supervision 15 PhD students and three postdoc students but he has been the principal supervisor of more than 50 PhD students, including some Portuguese.

His long-term goals are to continue his theoretical work in adaptive systems and brain machines interfaces.

José C. Príncipe is mostly known by his work in intelligent adaptive systems and applications in brain machine interfaces. He has been, since several years, editor in chief of the journal IEEE transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and is also president elected of the International Neural Network Society, formal secretary of the Technical Committee on Neural Networks of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and a member of the Scientific Board of the Food and Drug Administration and of the Advisory Board of the University of Florida Brain Institute.

He is, as well, president of the general assembly of the Fórum Internacional de Investigadores Portugueses, and he presides to the external advisory board of INESC an associated laboratory of FEUP.

He has a stringent collaboration with FEUP in Porto and has been invited to be a full-time chaired professor at that institution, but for legal reasons that was not possible.

AWARDS

Gabor Award, International Neural Network Society, 2006

AIMBE Fellow, 2006

2005 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society's Career Service Award

Laurea Honoris Causa in Ingegneria Elettronica by the Universita Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria, June, 2005

Past President, International Neural Network Society, 2005

Co-author with Robert Jenssen on a paper that won the best student paper award at ICASSP 2005

President, International Neural Network Society, 2004

President Elect, International Neural Network Society, 2003

Co-author with D. Erdogmus on a paper that won the 2003 Young Author Award in the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing

University of Florida Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, 2002

University of Florida Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award, 2002

IEEE Fellow (Signal Processing Society), 2000

University of Florida Research Professor Fellowship, 1999-2001.

Elected to the IEEE EMBS Administrative Committee, 1999.

Best presentation award, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, 1999.

Elected to the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (1998, 2001, 2005)

principe at cnel.ufl.edu