ANTÓNIO JOAQUIM ANDRÉ ESTEVES. He got his PhD in Computer Science in 2001 from the University of Minho. In 1992 he got a Master's degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro. He graduated in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro in 1989. From January 1993 to the present, he has been a professor at the Informatics Department of the University of Minho, in the Computer Engineering Group. He is currently a researcher at the Algoritmi Center at the University of Minho and a collaborator at the Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics Laboratory (LIP). Between 1990 and 1992 he belonged to the Institute of Computer Systems Engineering (INESC), as a postgraduate student. The present research areas are (i) Machine Learning, including its application to Earth observation and computer vision, deep neural networks, and deep learning frameworks; (ii) parallel and distributed computing with Python, Dask, and Ray. The past research areas were (i) modeling and simulation at atomic scale with Molecular Dynamics and Kinetic Monte Carlo; (ii) parallelization of simulation algorithms with MPI and OpenMP; (ii)) civil protection (CP) applications, including integration of wireless sensor networks with Grid CP applications, implementation of web services to access sensors, application of the Open Geospatial Consortium standards to access sensors and other geospatial sources of information; (iv) hardware/software codesign; (v) embedded and real-time systems; (vi) reconfigurable logic devices and architectures. Participated as a researcher in several national and international projects: Sensible Car, IFACTORY and INNOVCAR (a partnership between University of Minho and Bosch Car Multimedia), Understanding Big Data in High Energy Physics: finding an needle in many haystacks (a LIP Project), GISELA and EELA-2 (cooperation between Europe and Latin America), CROSS-Fire and CYCLOPS (European projects on civil protection), GAsPar, PPC-VM, METHODES and Sistemas Embebidos Reconfiguráveis (FCT funded projects). Published a specialized journal paper, 2 book chapters, 22 papers in international conference proceedings, 4 papers in national conference proceedings, 3 project reports and 6 technical reports. He published 7 pedagogical documents to support practical classes and 2 books to support theoretical classes for Bachelor's/Master's degrees. He supervised 14 Master's theses in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Micro/Nano Technologies. He was involved in teaching more than 16 curricular units in the areas of Computer Architecture, Computing Systems, Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Modeling/Simulation and Digital Systems. Participated in the Jury of 7 Master's theses, 3 of which as an arguer. He was a member of the scientific committee of the Reconfigurable Systems Conference (REC), from 2005 to 2018. He was part of the organization of the 4th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference (Ibergrid'2010), the 18th Workshop Micromechanics Europe (MME 2007), the 3rd International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD 2003). He has reviewed 23 articles from national/international conferences and journals.