ALEXANDRE BERNARDINO (PhD 2004) is a tenured Associate Professor at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Senior Researcher at the Computer and Robot Vision Laboratory of the Institute for Systems and Robotics at IST, the faculty of engineering of Lisbon University. He published about 80/220 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals/conferences in the field of robotics, machine learning vision and cognitive systems, with more than 6300/3600 citations and h-index 36/25 in GScholar/Scopus. He has graduated 19 PhD students and 130+ MSc students. He participated in more than 20 national and international research projects, being the principal investigator in 5 of them. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the chaired the IEEE Portugal Robotics and Automation Chapter during 2015-19. His main research interests focus on the application of computer vision, machine learning, cognitive science and control theory to advanced robotics and automation systems.