Miguel S. E. Martins is an Assistant Researcher at the Center of Intelligent Systems, IDMEC, and an Invited Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa. He received the MSc and PhD degrees both in Mechanical Engineering in 2017 and 2025, respectively, from IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal. His main research areas are optimization and artificial Intelligence, more specifically, metaheuristics, reinforcement learning and deep learning. His research focuses mainly on computational intelligence methods for industrial and combinatorial problems. He has authored or coauthored 11 peer reviewed journal papers and 8 conference papers. He collaborated on 3 national research projects and was team-lead on 1.