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Bernardete Ribeiro is Tenured Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Informatics Engineering Department of the University of Coimbra in Portugal, from where she received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, speciality of Informatics. Her research interests are in the areas of Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Financial Engineering, Signal Processing and their applications to a broad range of fields. She leads the Laboratory of Artificial Neural Networks (LARN). She authored or co-authored many publications including books, journals and international and national conferences. She is coordinator of the BSc in Informatics Engineering and also member of Portuguese Association of Pattern Recognition.

Luís A. Alexandre received the B.Sc. degree (1994) in Physics/Applied Mathematics and the M.Sc. (1997) and the Ph.D. (2002) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computers from the University of Porto, Portugal. He received the Agregado degree in 2013 from the University of Beira Interior, Portugal, where he is a Full Professor. His current research interests include deep neural networks, 3D computer vision and collaborative robots. He has over 90 research publications including books and papers in international journals and conferences. He is a researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações and the head of a lab at the University of Beira Interior. He is also a member of the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition and served as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Neural Network Society from 2008 to 2010.