Senior researcher and coordinator of the Machine Learning team, he is also an invited Professor at the DSI of UMinho and a member of the IDS Group of the ALGORITMI Centre. He has a PhD in Information Technology and Systems, specializing in Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation. He has collaborated on multiple R&D projects, co-authored several scientific publications in the field and the evoltree module, and co-advised PhD and MSc students on their R&D and thesis work.