Nuno Alexandre Cruz

Nuno Alexandre Cruz was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1970. He graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal, in 1993. He received the MSc. in Digital Systems Engineering from UMIST, UK, in 1994, and the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto in 2016. He is currently a Coordinator at the Centre for Robotics and Autonomous Systems of INESC TEC, in Portugal. He is also an Assistant Professor at FEUP, where he has been teaching for over 20 years, and serves as a member of the Department Council. His research interests include marine robotics, underwater navigation systems, and efficient use of autonomous vehicles at sea. Nuno Cruz has led and actively participated in numerous R&D projects, both national and international. He was the leader of the PISCES team, finalist of the Shell Ocean Discovery Xprize, in 2018, splitting the 1 million dollars prize. Under this effort, he led the development of DART, a portable deep water hovering AUV to map the ocean floor up to 4000 meters of depth, among other significant advances in collaborative robotics. He has been the author or co-author of more than 100 publications in international journals, book chapters, and proceedings of conferences, with regular presentations in top international conferences, such as the IEEE/MTS Oceans or IEEE UT. Nuno Cruz is a Senior Member of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (a member since 1997), where he serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Oceanic Engineering, in the topics of AUV design, underwater navigation, acoustic navigation, and adaptive sampling. He is the Chair of the Portuguese Section of IEEE OES.