Dr. Jérôme Mendes is a senior researcher at the R&D Unit Centre for Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Processes (CEMMPRE) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. He obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra in 2014. Following his PhD, he was awarded a competitive Postdoctoral FCT in 2015. Dr. Jérôme Mendes focuses his research on developing computational intelligence-based solutions, mainly for smart industry, with an emphasis on intelligent control (adaptive, auto-tuning, predictive, data-driven, evolving, and interpretable), intelligent identification (prediction of unknown and time-varying systems, automatic identification design with evolving and interpretable capability), and intelligent failure detection.