Francisco Airton Silva received a B.S degree in information systems from Instituto Federal do Piaui (IFPI) in 2008, an M.S degree in 2013 and a Ph.D degree in 2017, both in computer science from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). He is currently a Professor in Information Systems at Universidade Federal do Piaui (UFPI), Brazil. In 2015, Francisco studied at the Sapienza Universita di Roma. He was a collaborative researcher in multinational technology companies such as EMC and OKI.