LIAAD is a unit of INESC TEC (Laboratório Associado) since 2007. Previously LIAAD was part of LIACC. He is PhD in Computer Science by U. Porto, MSc. on Foundations of Advanced Information Technology by the Imperial College and BSc. in Applied Maths and Computer Science, currently Computer Science (U. Porto). His research interests are Data Mining and Machine Learning, in particular association rules, web intelligence and data mining for decision support. His past research also includes Inductive Logic Programming and Collaborative Data Mining. He lectures courses related to information processing, data mining, decision support and database marketing.