Luis Ducla Soares was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in March 1973. In 1996, he graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal. In 2004, he received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering also from IST.

He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Information Science and Technology Department of Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Portugal, and a member of the research staff of the Telecommunications Institute, Portugal.

His research interests include object-based error resilience as well as video coding.

Luís Ducla Soares

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Tel: +351 217903992

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E-mail: luis.ducla.soares[at]iscte.pt