Joaquim Jorge (computer scientist)

Joaquim Jorge received his Bachelor of Engineering from Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico in 1984. He received his MSc and Ph.D.[6] degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He completed his Agregação (Habilitation) degree from Instituto Superior Técnico in 2002. His dissertation onParsing Adjacency grammars for Calligraphic Interfaces,[6] was supervised by Ephraim Glinert.[7]

Shortly after receiving his Ph.D., Joaquim Jorge joined the newly formed Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico as an assistant professor. After completing his Habilitation in 2002, he was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2004, and full professor in 2008. Jorge was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt for the academic year 1999-2000, an Adjunct Professor of the University of Calgary's Computer Science Department from 2006-2018, and a visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna in the academic year 2013-2014. He was an Elected Executive Member of the ACM Europe Council from 2015-2019. He was the Journal Papers Chair for IEEEVR2020, held on March 22-26 2020 (virtually),[8] and was conference co-chair of IEEEVR2021,[9] held Mar 27-April 3, 2021 in Lisbon (Virtually), and IEEEVR2022.[10] He was the Scientific Program Co-Chair of Eurographics 2016, held in Lisbon from 9-13 May 2016.[11] A former member of the Editorial Board of Computer Graphics Forum, he serves on the Editorial Boards of the Springer Virtual Reality Journal[12] and the Springer/Nature Human–Computer Interaction Series.[13] He has co-authored over 300 papers, books, and peer-reviewed conference articles. As of 2023, Jorge has graduated 17 PhD students.[14] He has been listed as a top Computer Science Researcher in Portugal in 2022 and 2023.[15] and ranked among the world's top 2% Computer Scientists by a Stanford study in 2022.[16] His works have been cited over 10000 times and he has over 53 articles with 53 or more citations according to Google Scholar.[1] His work is listed in Scopus,[17] DBLP[18] and ORCID.[19] He is the co-editor of a Springer book on Digital Anatomy[20] and a widely cited survey about Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling[21]