For over 25 years,Vladimir Estivill-Castro’s consultancy expertise has focused on Machine Learning, Database Efficiency, and Object-Oriented Technologies. Vlad has lead projects in Australia, Canada, Latin-America, Spain and the USA securing over AUD$1MM in competitive research funding. He has delivered invited presentation to industry as well as keynote lectures at international technical conferences. Vlad is co-editor in chief of the series Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology and member of the editorial board of Security and Privacy Wiley (ISSN: 2475-6725). He directs Mi-Pal (the Machine Intelligence and Pattern Analysis Laboratory), participating at RoboCup’s Standard Platform League (11 times) and RoboCup@Home (twice). He has supervised several PhD, master and honours projects, earning the best supervision award in 2010 by the Australian Teaching and Learning Council. He has strong skills in computer programming, design of software architectures, image segmentation methods and robots programming. He developed algorithms for efficiently processing the vision and object recognition pipeline for robotic soccer as well as dance and interaction robotic routines for marketing.