Júlio Barros is an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems, University of Minho – Portugal, Ph.D. in Advanced Engineering Systems for Industry and a Data scientist at DTx - Digital Transformation CoLAB. He holds his M.Sc. in Telecommunication and Informatics Engineering at the same university. He is a member of the ALGORITMI Research Centre and his main research interests lie in Machine Learning and Decision Support Systems.