Luís Miguel Silveira (S'85–M'95–SM'00–F'12) was born in Lisboa, Portugal. He received the Engineer's (summa cum laude) and Master's degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal, in 1986 and 1989, respectively, and the M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1990, 1991, and 1994, respectively.

He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, and was Head of the Department from 2013 until 2015 the institute's Vice-President for International Affairs from 2015 until 2020. He is also a Senior Researcher with Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID). His research interests include various aspects of computer-aided design of integrated circuits, with emphasis on interconnect modeling and simulation, parallel computer algorithms, and the theoretical and practical issues concerning numerical simulation methods for circuit design problems.

Prof. Silveira has received best paper awards at various conferences, including ECTC, ICCAD, DAC, DATE, VLSI-SoC and SBCCI.