Pedro Ferreira is an Associate Professor of the Department of Informatics of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where he integrates the LASIGE research unit. His main research interests include machine learning, buildings energy management, and data-driven cyber-security. He is an experienced machine learning researcher and practitioner (in different application fields) with more than 80 peer-reviewed papers. He coordinates the EU H2020 SATO project in the buildings energy field and participates in various other national and international research projects with industry.