Paulo Cortez (Habilitation, PhD) is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Department of Information Systems, University of Minho, Portugal. He is also assistant director of the ALGORITMI R&D Centre. From 2012 to 2015, he was Vice-President of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (www.appia.pt). Currently, he is Associate Editor of the journals Decision Support Systems and Expert Systems. His research, within the fields of decision support, data science, business analytics, machine learning, and modern optimization, has appeared in Journal of Heuristics, Decision Support Systems, Information Processing and Management, Information Sciences and others.
