João Pascoal Faria holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in 1999, where he is currently Full Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering and FEUP's Pro-Director for Continuous Improvement. He previously served as director of several study programs in Informatics and Computing Engineering and Software Engineering between 2014 and 2024 (MIEIC, L.EIC, M.EIC, and MESW). He is a senior researcher in Software Engineering at INESC TEC  in the Human-Centered Computing and Information Science (HumanISE) center. He obtained the Certified Personal Software Process (PSP) Developer, Authorized PSP Instructor, and trained Team Software Process (TSP) Coach qualifications from the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. In the past, he worked with several software companies (Novabase Saúde, Sidereus, Medidata) and was a co-founder of two others (Qualisoft and Strongstep). He has more than 30 years of experience in education, research, development and consultancy in software engineering.   He is the main author of a rapid/low-code application development tool (SAGA) based on domain-specific languages, with more than 30 years of market presence and evolution. His current research focuses on advancing software quality—encompassing software testing, software verification, and software process improvement—by leveraging synergies between software engineering and artificial intelligence.