João Sousa
International Business Developer
CCG/ZGDV Institute
Guimarães, Portugal
My organisation
Associação CCG/zgdv - Centro de Computação Gráfica
Associação CCG/zgdv - Centro de Computação Gráfica
Research Institution
Guimarães, Portugal
About me
My organisation
CCG is a non-profit private entity that started its activity in 1993 and is currently located in Guimarães, at Campus de Azurém (University of Minho). CCG is an applied investigation and technological innovation Institute for digital economy, designing and prototyping new high-value processes, services, and products in fields of computer graphics, ubiquitous computing, human-machine interaction, and information engineering. CCGInstitute is formally recognized by the Portuguese Government as a Public-Interest R&I (Research and Innovation) organization, by the Portuguese Agency for Innovation as a Centre for Technology Innovation, and by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation as part of ALGORITMI Research Centre (first Research Centre formally recognized in Portugal in the ICT domain).
CCG is structured in four domains of applied research: Computer Vision Interaction and Graphics (CVIG), Engineering Process Maturity and Quality (EPMQ), Urban and Mobile Computing (UMC) and Human-technology Interaction and Robotics (HTIR).
Skills
- Business models for the digital economy
- Software and business processes
- Stochastic simulation of processes
- AI, ML, and decision support systems
- Data analysis and information visualization
- Software architecture and data engineering
- Ontologies and interoperability
- Cloud computing, blockchain, and cybersecurity
- Mobile computing and advanced positioning systems
- IoT, sensor networks, and precision agriculture
- 5G and 6G private networks
- Computer vision and image processing
- Computer graphics, VR/AR/MR
- Cognitive and collaborative robotics
- Human factors, usability and UX design
Interests
- Parnerships
- New business opportunities
- Consortia