João Xavier. He completed his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002 from the University of Lisbon Instituto Superior Técnico. He is Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon Instituto Superior Técnico. He published 115 articles in specialized journals. He supervised 7 doctoral thesis(s). He supervised 4 master's thesis(s). He works in the area(s) of Engineering Sciences and Technologies with an emphasis on Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering with an emphasis on Hardware and Computer Architecture. In his professional activities, he interacted with 94 collaborator(s) in co-authoring scientific works. In your Science Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production are: Riemannian Geometry; Non-differentiable Optimization; Signal and Image Processing; Probability on Differentiable Varieties; Estimation in Sensor Networks; Urban Pollution Monitoring; Distributed Sampling and Processing; Sampling in Mobile Sensor Networks; Wireless Broadband Communications; Systems with Multiple Antennas; Channel Estimation; Frequency Synchronization; Operation and Management of Business Networks; IP/TV Access Network; Network Abstraction; Probabilistic Graphical Models; Selection of more informative sensors; Security of cyber-physical systems; Information theory; Distributed actuation and sensing; Control; Water distribution channels; Distributed optimization; Fault tolerant system; Cyber-Physical Systems; Optimal Distributed Control; Multi-vehicle systems (aircraft and submarines); power systems;