José Bioucas Dias received the EE, MSc, PhD, and "Agrefado" degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (now Universidade de Lisboa), Portugal, in 1985, 1991, 1995, and 2007, respectively. Since 1995, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IST, where he is a Professor and teaches inverse problems in imaging and electric communications. He is also a Senior Researcher with the Pattern and Image Analysis group of the Instituto de Telecomunicações, which is a private non-profit research institution. His research interests include inverse problems, signal and image processing, pattern recognition, optimization, and remote sensing. He is an IEEE Fellow and is included in Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers 2015 list.