Jorge Bernardino received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Coimbra in 2002. From 2005 to 2010, he was the President of ISEC (Coimbra Engineering Institute). From 2017 to 2019, he was also the President of the ISEC Scientific Council. In 2014, he was a visiting professor at CMU. From 2019 to 2021, he was the Director of the Applied Research Institute (i2A) at the Polytechnic of Coimbra. Currently, he is a Coordinating Professor at the Polytechnic University of Coimbra-ISEC, Portugal. He has authored more than 200 publications in refereed conferences and journals, and has participated in several national and international projects. His main research interests include big data, NoSQL, data warehousing, reliability, and software engineering.