Jaime S. Cardoso holds a Licenciatura (5-year degree) in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1999, an MSc in Mathematical Engineering in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Computer Vision in 2006, all from the University of Porto. Cardoso is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), where he has been teaching Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Doctoral Programs and multiple courses for the graduate studies. Cardoso is also a Researcher at the Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia of INESC TEC. From 2012 to 2015, Cardoso served as President of the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), affiliated in the IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition). Cardoso is also a Senior Member of IEEE since 2011. Cardoso serves regularly as project evaluator for the European Commission. His research can be summed up in three major topics: computer vision, machine learning and decision support systems. Cardoso has co-authored 300+ papers, 100+ of which are in international journals. Cardoso has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Honorable Mention in the Exame Informática Award 2011, in the software category, for the project “Semantic PACS” and the First Place in the ICDAR 2013 Music Scores Competition: Staff Removal (task: staff removal with local noise), August 2013. The research results have been recognized both by the peers, with 6500+ citations to his publications and the advertisement in the mainstream media several times.