João M. Costa Sousa is a Full Professor with the Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. He is the Coordinator of the Center of Intelligent Systems, IDMEC. He received an MSc in mechanical engineering from IST in 1992 and a PhD in electrical engineering from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 1998. He has authored one book and more than two hundred papers in journals and conference proceedings. He has supervised more than 100 PhD and MSc students. He has participated in more than 20 research projects, being the Principal Researcher in 7, 5 of them with industry in intelligent automation and machine learning. He was the PI of an Industry 5.0 project with the pharmaceutical industry. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Sensors, and Fuzzy Sets and Systems. He is past Chair of the Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.