João Moutinho is the Innovation, Business, and Internationalization Director of BUILT CoLAB. In the past he was the Coordinator of the Mobile and Urban Computing Department and Co-Director of the Center for Computer Graphics of the University of Minho, Associate Researcher of INESC TEC, Researcher, Assistant Professor, Researcher and FCT PhD Fellow in INESC TEC in the Department of Electrotechnical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Sub-Coordinator of Work at Cabeza & Sastre and Maintenance Engineer of the rolling stock of the Metro do Porto at Transdev SA.He holds a Bachelor’s, a Master’s and Ph.D. with Cum Laude distinction in Electrotechnical Engineering by the University of Porto, Portugal.
He is the author of several papers in journals, conferences and periodical publications and co-inventor of two patents. He is also speaker at various events of Smart Cities, Construction, Logistics, Mobility, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), 5G applied to Autonomous Driving and Communication Routes. He is part of the Administration Board of the AEC Portuguese Cluster/Portuguese Technological Construction Platform. He has been a thematic expert on the European Commission’s Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC) European Commission initiative. He also is the PTPC’s coordinator for Energy Efficient Buildings (E2B) and the representant in the committee for it in the European Construction technological Platform (ECTP).
He was also DG-CONNECT consultant for testing and demonstrating 5G technologies in the context of road mobility applications. He was technical coordinator of several Smart City projects in northern Portugal and Co-technical coordinator of a European Horizon 2020 project for the development of Autonomous Mobility solutions in a cross-border context using 5G V2X technologies throughout Europe. In the past he was also an entrepreneur having obtained several local and national entrepreneurship awards. He is also Vice-President and Responsible for the Environmental Protection and Heritage Section of a Non-Governmental Organization for the Environment.His research interests include Digital Transformation in the Construction Sector, IoT and Cyber-physical systems, Digital Twins, Energy Efficient Buildings, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Communication and Information Technologies, Mobility, Mobile Platforms, Sensor Monitoring and Conditioning, Digital Signal Processing, Indoor Location Systems, Electroacoustic Systems, Building Acoustics, Intelligent Transport Systems, Autonomous Vehicles, Psychoacoustics and Accessibility for People with Vision Disabilities.