Luís Sarmento is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence (AI), focusing mostly on Machine Learning (ML). He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering (1999), a MSc in Artificial Intelligence (2004), and a PhD in Informatics, all from the University of Porto (2010). He has more than 15 years of experience leading research teams both in academic (University of Porto, National Foundation for Scientific Computing, Portugal) and industrial settings (Portugal Telecom, Amazon, Google), in the fields of Search Engines, Recommender Systems and Dialog Systems. In 2021, Luis co-founded Inductiva Research Labs, a research-driven start-up company focused on delivering Artificial Intelligence solutions to problems in the fields of engineering and science. At Inductiva, Luís is working on developing a team of talented Scientific Machine Learning researchers and engineers capable of achieving breakthroughs in fundamental sciences.