José Valente de Oliveira received the Habilitation in Informatics Engineering from the University of Algarve (2022), the Ph.D. (1996), M.Sc. (1992), and a 5-years degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering (1988), all from the IST, University of Lisbon. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Algarve where he served as Deputy Dean (2002-2003) and President of the Pedagogical Board (2010-2011). He is a Senior Researcher at Center of Intelligent Systems, idMEC/LAETA, with research interests in the interdisciplinary areas of natural computing and machine learning. José Valente de Oliveira is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press, and co-editor of the books Advances in Fuzzy Clustering and Its Applications, Wiley 2007; and Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective, Springer, 2012. Further editorial activities are available from Publons. A list of publications and citation metrics can be found in Scopus or Google Scholar. He was a visiting Faculty at University of Alberta (2005), Universidade Nacional de Timor Loro Sae (2005), Carnegie Mellon University (2012), Universidade Federal do Ceará (2013), an Ecuador Prometeo Researcher at UPS (2015), and Chongqing Technology and Business University (2017).