Xavier Fonseca

Xavier Fonseca is a Doctor Engineer that aims for positive impact in society through research and IT-based solutions. Fonseca is driven by innovation, and actively seeks for ways to build software and technology that can be created from underlying values such as social responsibility, privacy, and high performance. Fonseca uses the knowledge and professional experience accumulated over the years to tackle ever-evolving world-wide complex problems. Fonseca co-authored multiple articles in top scientific journals and has presented work on several national and international conferences. The topics addressed are on social cohesion, meaningful social interaction, playable cities, requirements engineering, user profiling, civic engagement, location-based games, serious digital games, games for education, and high performance computing to speed up artificial intelligence-based sequential algorithms (with the use of general purpose GPUs). Besides his scientific presentations, Fonseca also gave presentations as keynote speaker to other research groups on social cohesion, to help further define their research questions.

Publications

Exploring the Convergence of Computer and Medical Science Through Cloud Healthcare
Exploring the Convergence of Computer and Medical Science Through Cloud Healthcare
Ricardo Queirós, Bruno Cunha, Xavier Fonseca. © 2023. 287 pages.
Digital technologies are currently dramatically changing healthcare. Cloud healthcare is an increasingly trending topic in the field, converging skills from computer and health...