Gabriel's biography

Gabriel graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal, in 1997, where he also concluded a MSc degree in the area of Digital Signal Processing in 2002. He was a researcher at INESCPorto from 1997 until 2002. In 2003 he became a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC), Portugal. He started his PhD studies in late 2006 in the area of Telecommunications and Electronics and in 2010 he defended his dissertation entitled "Parallel algorithms and architectures for LDPC decoding", which was awarded with the second place at the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2010. He has been with the University of Coimbra as an Assistant Professor ever since.

Gabriel is a member of Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). Presently, he is working on energy-efficient parallelization techniques, algorithms and architectures for LDPC codes and SDR solutions. He has also targeted his research efforts towards the development of the next generation of ultrasound systems and architectures, aiming for improved medical imaging quality, depth and resolution. In the area of image recognition and object classification Gabriel is proposing novel low-power parallel computing architectures for solving compute-intensive problems related with artificial intelligence.

In 2011 and 2012 Gabriel Falcao became a Visiting Professor at EPFL, Switzerland, with whom he collaborates in the area of parallel programming models and computer architectures, HLS and EDA. He also performs a collaboration with the Medical Engineering Program, a laboratory working in the area of ultrasound systems based within the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. Gabriel is a Senior member of the IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society and of the HiPEAC network of excellence.