Marília Barandas received the M.Sc. degree in biomedical engineering from the Faculdade de Ciâncias e Tecnologia, NOVA University of Lisbon (FCT NOVA), in 2013, where she is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree under the Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Program. She has been working with the Fraunhofer Center for Assistive Information and Communication Solutions (AICOS) as a Scientist, since 2015. Prior to joining AICOS, she was an Assistant Lecturer with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, FCT NOVA, and a Research Engineer with the Centre of Technology and Systems, Computational Intelligence Research Group. Her research interests include knowledge extraction, probability theory, machine learning, and explainable artificial intelligence.