Jose T. de Sousa

José T. de Sousa is a Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Lisbon, School of Engineering (IST), and a senior researcher at the Electronic Systems Design and Automation research group at INESC-ID, a research institute associated with IST (1999-present). He is also a tech entrepreneur in the area of Semiconductor Intellectual Property, having founded and managed 3 companies: Coreworks (2001-2013, co-founder and CEO), IPbloq (2017-2019, co-founder and CEO), IObundle (2018-present, owner and founder). His main interests are Digital Systems Design and Computer Architecture, with emphasis on Reconfigurable Computing. He holds 4 international patents, is co-author of one book and has published more than 70 technical papers in international journals and conferences. He was General Chair of the 2013 Field Programmable Logic and Applications Conference, co-editor of its proceedings and a related special issue on the IEEE Transactions on Computers journal.