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, Director of the Master in Software Engineering (MESW), and FEUP's Pro-Director for Continuous Improvement. He is a senior researcher in Software Engineering at INESC TEC. He In the past, he worked with several software companies (Novabase Saúde, Sidereus, Medidata) and was a co-founder of two other (Qualisoft and Strongstep). He has more than 30 years of experience in education, research, development and consultancy in several software engineering areas. He is the main author of a rapid application development tool (SAGA), based on domain specific languages, with more than 30 years of market presence and evolution. He is currently involved in research projects, supervisions and consulting activities in the areas of software test automation, software process improvement, model-driven development, and exploring synergies between software engineering and artificial intelligence.