Nuno Roma is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL) - Portugal.

He is also working at Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores - Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID), being a member of the Signal Processing Systems (SIPS) research group.

His research is mainly focused on the development and implementation of:

• specialised computer architectures for digital signal processing (including image and video coding/transcoding and biological sequences processing),
• embedded systems design for biomedical applications,
• compressed-domain video processing algorithms.

Brief biographical sketch:

• Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, 2008;
• M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, 2001;
• B.Sc. degree (5 years course) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1998;
• Born in Entroncamento, Portugal, on January 5, 1975.