Diego Mariano is a professor at the Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He received his MS.c. and his Ph.D. degrees in bioinformatics from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in 2015 and 2019, respectively. He has experience in the development of web systems, data science and data visualization, bioinformatics, and machine learning.