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Shortbio: Mohammad Yaqub is a Professor in the Computer Vision Department at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is also an honorary research fellow at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. He was the Vice President of Engineering at Intelligent Ultrasound limited - Oxford [2016 - 2020]. He has led the R&D team to develop state-of-the-art solutions in different clinical applications. His main achievement was the development of ScanNav, the first AI-based fetal anomaly scan assessment system. The product has been exclusively licensed by GE Healthcare and is now in the new ultrasound Voluson Swift machines. He spent several years at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME), University of Oxford initially as a DPhil student then as a research fellow until September 2016. After that he was an academic visitor at the IBME (until 2019), University of Oxford and the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (until 2020), University of Oxford. He was also a teacher at the IT Learning Centre, IT Services, University of Oxford [2010 - 2020]. Furthermore, he is part of Oxford EMI Training where he teaches courses to non-English speaking university lecturers from all over the world who teach their courses in English. More details can be found here (www.oxfordemi.co.uk/lecturers). His research interests include medical image analysis (e.g., ultrasound, MRI and CT), deep learning / machine learning, and medical image registration. He has been granted several research grants funded by different parties such as EPSRC, Innovate-UK, and Philips Healthcare. Furthermore, he acts as a reviewer for several high tier journals and conferences. He has published over 35 peer-reviewed articles in top conferences and journals such as IEEE TMI, Medical Image Analysis, MICCAI and UOG. Full list of publications can be found here https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=9dfn5GkAAAAJ&hl=en

Shortbio: João Varajão is a Professor of Information Systems (IS) and Project Management (PM) at the University of Minho (associate professor with Habilitation). He is also a researcher at the ALGORITMI/LASI research center. Born and raised in Portugal, he attended the University of Minho, earning his Graduate (1995), Masters (1997), and Doctorate (2003) degrees in Technologies and Information Systems. In 2012, he received his Habilitation from the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. His main research interests are IS PM, IS Development, and IS Management (addressing PM success and the success of projects). Before joining academia, he worked as an Information Technology (IT)/IS consultant, project manager, IS analyst, and software developer, for private companies and public institutions. He is the former director of several 1st, 2nd, and 3rd cycle degrees (e.g., Doctoral Program on Information Systems and Technology). He has taught/coordinated over 150 courses.
He has supervised over 125 MSc and 15 PhD theses. Currently co/supervises MSc and PhD students at the University of Minho, ISCTE, University of Oviedo, and NOVA University of Lisbon. He participated in more than 230 evaluation panels, including MSc (e.g., at the University of Lisbon), PhD evaluation (e.g., Charles III University of Madrid), and promotion (e.g., National University of Ireland). He has published more than 300 works, including refereed publications in top journals (e.g., International Journal of Project Management, Information Systems Management, Communications of ACM), authored books, edited books, as well as book chapters and communications at international conferences (e.g., ICIS, ECIS, AMCIS). He is the co/editor of around 20 books and proceedings (e.g., IGI Global). He serves as editor-in-chief (e.g., IJISPM), associate editor (e.g., IJHCIT, BSR), and editorial board member for international journals (e.g., IJITPM). He has served on numerous committees (more than 150) for international conferences (e.g., CENTERIS, PROJMAN, ECIS). He organized over 40 conferences, workshops, and other events. He is co/founder of CENTERIS – Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and ProjMAN - International Conference on Project MANagement. He participated in the organization of these two conferences for almost ten years as general, program, or organization chair.
He performed more than 180 reviews for journals (e.g., MISQ, Information & Management, European Journal of Information Systems, Project Management Journal), conferences (e.g., ICIS, HICCS, ECIS, AMCIS), and books. He is the former coordinator of the research group ISTTOS (Information Systems and Technologies for Transformation of Organizations and Society). He coordinates the workgroup “Information Systems Project Management” of the Portuguese Association of Information Systems. He is the executive coordinator of the interest group ISPMSig (Information Systems and Project Management Interest Group) (https://ispmsig.dsi.uminho.pt). He participated in several research and development projects as co/PI and team member (e.g., PAFSE - Partnerships for Science Education/Horizon 2020 project, iFactory, VSC - Visual Spaces of Change, Parques de Portugal, IDGRU, VITA - Virtual Learning for the management of successful SMEs, PLAYER - Entrepreneurial culture of young people, and entrepreneurship education, Portal Douro, etc.). He participated in evaluation panels of research and pedagogical projects for several organizations (e.g., ANI – National Innovation Agency, FCT – Public agency supporting science, technology, and innovation research, and A3ES – Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education). He participated in several invited talks (e.g., keynote speaker at ENTRENOVA-Croatia) and short courses on IT/IS/PM, including in developing countries (e.g., Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Principe, East Timor, Mozambique). He is a national (IPQ/ISO CT175 National PM expert) and international project management expert (ISO TC258 International PM expert). Currently coordinates the NP ISO 21503/4 projects. He is an active/former member of several scientific and professional organizations (e.g., Portuguese Association for Information Systems, Association for Information Systems, AIS SIG ITProjMgmt – IT Project Management, ACM - Association for Computer Machinery, ISO - International Organization for Standardization, IPQ - Portuguese Institute for Quality Services). He coordinates the development of the UMinho/DSI Museums of Informatics (https://mi.dsi.uminho.pt) and Smartphone (https://sm.dsi.uminho.pt). He has been awarded several academic (e.g., UM School Merit 1993, 1994), pedagogical (EEUM Pedagogical Merit 2021, 2022, 2024), scientific (e.g., EEUM Scientific Publication Merit 2022, 2023, 2025; AIS SIG ITProjMgmt Leadership Excellence Award 2022, Scopus "Top 2% world influential researcher” 2023, 2024, 2025), and other (e.g., AIS Distinguished Member 2023) distinctions.