Paulo Leitão is Professor Coordenador at the Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Department of Electrical Engineering, and member of the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory (LIACC), where currently is member of the Directive Board. He is/was principal investigator for 9 research projects in the area of intelligent manufacturing systems, supervised 3 PhD thesis and is currently supervising 4 PhD thesis. He published more than 200 publications in international journals and conferences, co-authored 3 patents, and won 4 scientific awards. He served as general co-chair in 4 international conferences, and Chair of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Agents, and currently he is member at-large of the IEEE IES Administrative Committee (AdCom) and chair of the IEEE Standards Association P2660.1 Working Group.