About

Luis Caldas de Oliveira has been teaching signal processing, entrepreneurship and innovation courses to students of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Energy Management Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) (University of Lisbon). His interests include speech processing, signal processing, internet-of-things, innovation and entrepreneurship. He has been involved in many research and technology transfer projects, sponsored by the industry, the Portuguese Science Foundation and the European Commission. He co-authored the DIXI system, the first text-to-speech synthesizer for European Portuguese. Voiceinteraction S.A., a company he co-founded in 2008, sells a derivative product of this system. From 1991 till 1993 he was a consultant at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray-Hill, NJ. From 2004 to 2009 he was the director of administrative affairs of INESC-ID, a private not-for-profit research institute. From 2009 to 2019 he was Vice-President of IST for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Relations. Among other initiatives, he created TT@Técnico, the technology transfer office of IST, the IST SPIN-OFF Community and the Técnico Partner Network Program. Since 2020 he has been in charge of the iStartLab, the IST Innovation Laboratory. He likes to read and fix things, even if they are not broken.