Jorge Barbosa received an M.Sc. (1996) and a Ph.D. (2001) in computer science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. He conducted postdoctoral studies (2011) at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, South Korea. He also conducted postdoctoral research (2020) at the University of California Irvine (UCI), Irvine, the United States. He is a full professor in the Applied Computing Graduate Program (PPGCA) of the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), the head of the university’s Mobile Computing Lab (MOBILAB), and a researcher at the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). His main research interests are mobile and ubiquitous computing, context prediction using context histories, mainly through similarity and pattern analysis, and ubiquitous computing applications, mainly in health (u-health), accessibility (u-accessibility), and learning (u-learning).