Rui Duarte is concluding a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London, with the thesis "Variation-Aware High-Level DSP Circuit Design Optimisation Framework for FPGAs".

He holds a MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico.

His resarch insterests include SoC Fpga Design for Digital Image and Video Processing, Reconfigurable and Resilient architectures, and Computer Networking.