Ana Alves has been, since 2007, a member of the Cognitive and Media Systems (CMS) group, integrated into the Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). Her main research interests are Natural Language Processing and Urban Computing, which she has studied to infer the organization of urban spaces and the way people use them by influencing mobility and land use analysis. The information to support this analysis is extracted from opportunistic data and enriched through mining distinct sources such as the Web and social networks. Learning to interconnect and represent this information is another research challenge she is devoted to. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC), Coimbra Institute of Engineering (ISEC), since 2000, lecturing courses on programming, operating systems, ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence. Holding a PhD in Science and Information Technology since 2012, an MSc. in Informatics and Systems in 2004 (pre-bologna), and a 5-year bachelor's degree in informatics engineering in 2000 from the University of Coimbra, Ana Alves has contributed to some indexed scientific journals in their reviewing process as well as is an editorial board member of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. Furthermore, she is also a member of scientific associations such as the Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Association (APPIA - Associação Portuguesa Para a Inteligência Artificial), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and Registered researcher at the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia).