Paulo Novais is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, the School of Engineering, the University of Minho (Portugal) and a researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre in which he is the leader of the research group ISLab - Synthetic Intelligence lab and the coordinator of the Portuguese Intelligent Systems Associate Laboratory (LASI). He started his career developing scientific research in the field of Intelligent Systems/Artificial Intelligence (AI), namely in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning, and Multi-Agent Systems. His interest, in the last years, His main research aim is to make systems a little more smart, intelligent and also reliable. He is a member of APPIA (the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence) since 2016, Portuguese representative at the IFIP - TC 12 - Artificial Intelligence, member of the executive committee of the IBERAMIA and Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Gulbenkian Grant Program “New Talent in Artificial Intelligence”.