Filipe Soares is a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer Portugal Research Center for Assistive Information and Communication Solutions (AICOS), conducting research on computer vision and decision support systems in the fields of Retail, Manufacturing, Precision Agriculture, and mHealth, particularly in the area of ophthalmology. He received a Ph.D. with the highest honors in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Beira Interior, Portugal, in 2014. Filipe worked as a researcher in medical imaging at Siemens Healthcare in the field of computer-aided detection and diagnosis of breast cancer, on a project for which he received the Siemens Innovation Award in 2012. He worked as a software engineer in telecommunications and embedded systems at Coriant (former Nokia Siemens Networks) in 2013. His main research areas are image processing, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, decision support systems, embedded and intelligent systems, and software engineering.