Abel Gomes is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)He is a member of IEEE, ACM, ACM/SIGGRAPH, and EurographicsHe was General Co-chair of the 37th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics''2016), Lisbon, Portugal, 2016, as well as Program Co-chair of the 2018 Shape Modeling
International (SMI''16) Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018He is Associate Editor of the Computers & Graphics journal (Elsevier) and also of the International Journal of Computer Games Technology (Hindawi/Wiley)He has (co)authored more than 100 in peer-reviewed international publicationsAs a supervisor, he completed sixteen PhDs. Currently he is supervising two PhDs: (1) surface reconstruction from 3D point clouds through deep learning; (2) breast cancer medical imaging through deep learningTherefore, his current research fields are geometric computing, computer graphics, medical imaging, and, more recently, virtual reality.