Jorge Manuel Miranda Dias was born on March 7, 1960 , in Coimbra , Portugal e has a Ph.D. on Electrical Engineering by the University of Coimbra , specialization in Control and Instrumentation, November 1994.

Jorge Dias holds his research activities on the System and Robotics Institute ( ISR - Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica) from the University of Coimbra .  Jorge Dias research area is Computer Vision and Robotics, with activities and contributions on the field since 1984. He has several publications on Scientific Reports, Conferences, Journals and Book Chapters.

Jorge Dias teaches several engineering courses at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department- DEEC from the Faculty of Science and Technology - University of Coimbra . He is responsible by courses on Computer Vision, Robotics, Industrial Automation, Microprocessors and Digital Systems. He is also responsible by the supervision of Master and Ph.D. students on the field of Computer Vision and Robotics.

Jorge Dias is currently director of LAS-Laboratory of Systems and Automation (former LAT) from the technology transfer institute IPN – Instituto Pedro Nunes .

He was main researcher from projects financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology by European Community and by NATO - Science For Stability Program.