Arlindo Oliveira
Arlindo Manuel Limede de Oliveira is a Portuguese academic, researcher and writer. He is author of more than 150 scientific articles and papers in conferences, and three books: Computer Architecture, The Digital Mind, and Inteligência Artificial.
Oliveira obtained his engineering degree from Instituto Superior Técnico and his PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the Portuguese Academy of Engineering, a notable alumnus of the University of Lisbon and, between 2015 and 2018, the Head of the Portuguese node of ELIXIR.
He was director of INESC-ID between 2000 and 2009, and president of the Instituto Superior Técnico between January 2012 and December 2019. He is currently the president of INESC.