José Manuel Castro Torres completed a PhD in Computer Science in 2005 at Lancaster University, an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computers in 1997 at the Universidade do Porto, and a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering and Computers in 1993 at the Universidade do Porto. He is an associate professor at the Universidade Fernando Pessoa and a researcher at LIACC - Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory. His research topics mainly include: artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning, computer vision, and multimedia retrieval.