Paulo Menezes (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering, with a specialisation in informatics, from the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, in 2007. Previously, he was an associate researcher with the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems, Toulouse, France. Since then, he has been a tenured professor with the University of Coimbra and a senior researcher with the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR), Coimbra. He is currently a lab manager and the head of the Artificial Perception for ISR (AP4ISR) Team, being involved with several national and European R&D projects as well as maintaining collaborations with foreign institutions, such as ISIR/UPMC in Paris, France; KUSTAR in Abu Dhabi, UAE; and Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Querétaro, Mexico. He is a permanent consultant of the Laboratory of Systems and Automation, Instituto Pedro Nunes, Coimbra, Portugal, and was in the organizing committees of several national and international conferences, such as IEEE/RSJ-IROS 2012 and IEEE-ICARSC 2017. He currently advises/coadvises six Ph.D. students and several M.Sc. candidates. He has contributed extensively to the field of his research interests, being recognized by prestigious institutions, such as the Portuguese Society of Engineers. His research interests include artificial intelligence, HMI/HRI, immersive and interactive environments, and human behavior/emotional analysis.