Jorge Bernardino is currently a Coordinator Professor at the Polytechnic University of Coimbra - ISEC (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra) in Portugal. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Coimbra in 2002. From 2005 to 2010, he was president of ISEC. In 2014, he was a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the USA. From 2017 to 2019, he was also president of the ISEC Scientific Council. From 2019 to 2021, he was Director of the Applied Research Institute (i2A) at the Polytechnic University of Coimbra. His main research fields are big data, NoSQL, data warehousing, business intelligence, open-source tools, and software engineering.