Professor Joao Gama

University of Porto, Director LIAAD

João Gama is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Economy, University of Porto. He is a researcher and the Director of LIAAD, a group belonging to INESC TEC. He got the PhD degree from the University of Porto, in 2000. He has worked in projects and authored papers in areas related to machine learning, data streams, and adaptive learning systems and is a member of the editorial board of international journals in his area of expertise. He has worked in several National and European projects on Incremental and Adaptive learning systems, Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery, Learning from Massive, and Structured Data, etc. He served as Co-Program chair of ECML’2005, DS’2009, ADMA’2009, IDA’ 2011, and ECML/PKDD’2015. He served as track chair on Data Streams with ACM SAC from 2007 till 2016. He organized a series of Workshops on Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams with ECML/PKDD, and Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data with ACM SIGKDD.

He is author of several books in Data Mining (in Portuguese) and authored a monograph on Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams. He authored more than 250 peer-reviewed papers in areas related to machine learning, data mining, and data streams. He is a member of the editorial board of international journals ML, DMKD, TKDE, IDA, NGC, and KAIS. He supervised more than 12 PhD students and 50 Msc students.
João Gama is member of SIGKDD and SIGAPP. From 2007 till 2017 he co-chaired the Data Streams track at ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing. In conjunction with SIGKDD he co-chaired workshops on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (2007-2008-2010).