Alexandre Bernardino (Ph.D. 2004) is a tenured Associate Professor at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Senior Researcher at the Computer and Robot Vision Laboratory of the Institute for Systems and Robotics at IST, the Faculty of Engineering of Lisbon University. He has published about 80/220 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals/conferences in robotics, machine learning vision, and cognitive systems, with more than 6300/3600 citations and an h-index of 36/25 in Google Scholar/Scopus. He graduated 19 Ph.D. students and 130+ M.Sc. students. He participated in over 20 national and international research projects, being the principal investigator in 5. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and chaired the IEEE Portugal Robotics and Automation Chapter during 2015-2019. His main research interests include applying computer vision, machine learning, cognitive science, and control theory to advanced robotics and automation systems.