Ana Madureira was born in Mozambique in 1969. She received the B.S. in Computer Science Engineering, M.S. degree in Electrical and Computers Engineering, and Ph.D. in Production and Systems degrees in 1993, 1996, and 2003, respectively. She is Coordinator Professor with Habilitation in Informatics Engineering Department at the Institute of Engineering (ISEP/P.PORTO) since 1994, and has a significant experience in Computer Science undergraduate/graduate courses and in master and PhD thesis supervision. She has been involved in more than 25 R&D projects from which she coordinated 3 national funding in the area of Artificial Intelligence based Distributed Scheduling Systems and 1 funded by European Commission. She has published 7 books, 1 patent and over 150 papers in scientific conference proceedings, journals and books.

The main research interests are related to the application of Optimization and Artificial Intelligence Techniques to the design of approaches based on Nature Inspired Computation for scheduling, including, MAS, Autonomic Computing, Machine Learning techniques, User modelling, Decision-Support Systems, Bioinformatics, Big Data, Data Science/Data Engineering, Information DSS, and Research on Engineering Education.

1.       Mohammad Yazdani-Asrami, Wenjuan Song, Antonio Morandi, Giovanni De Carne, Joao Murta-Pina, ..., Cheng-Chien Chen, Ana Maria Madureira and Ajith Abraham, “Roadmap on artificial intelligence and big data techniques for superconductivity”, Superconductor Science and Technology, IOPScience, Volume 36, Number 4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/acbb34, 2023.

2.       Mohammad Yazdani-Asrami, Alireza Sadeghi, Wenjuan Song, Ana Madureira, Joao Murta-Pina, Antonio Morandi, Michael Parizh, “Artificial intelligence methods for applied superconductivity: material, design, manufacturing, testing, operation, and condition monitoring”, Superconductor Science and Technology, IOPScience, Volume 35, Issue 12, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/ac80d8, 2022.

3.       Diogo Braga, Ana Madureira, Fabio, Scotti, Vincenzo Piuri, Ajith Abraham, "An Intelligent Monitoring System for Assessing Bee Hive Health", in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 89009-89019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3089538, 2021. 

4.       Ivo Pereira, Ana Madureira, Eliana Costa e Silva, Ajith Abraham, "A Hybrid Metaheuristics Parameter Tuning Approach for Scheduling through Racing and Case-Based Reasoning", Appl. Sci., Vol. 11(8), 3325 https://doi.org/10.3390/app11083325, 2021.

5.       Bruno Cunha, Ana M. Madureira, B. Fonseca, J. Matos, “Intelligent scheduling with reinforcement learning”, Applied Sciences, Vol. 11(8), 3710, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/app11083710 , 2021.

- Coordinator Professor with Habilitation in Informatics Engineering Department at the Institute of Engineering (ISEP/P.PORTO) since 1994.

- Significant experience in Computer Science undergraduate/graduate courses and in master and PhD thesis supervision.

- Participation in the reformulation of Master degree in Computer Engineering field

- Participation in Inovation Pedagogic Project

- Member of the External Evaluation Committee of  the Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES), for the scientific area of Informatics of Polytechnic Higher Education in Portugal, since 2012.