MA, Boston University; MSc and licenciatura in Electrical Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon; PhD in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Director, CORAL laboratory, for research on intelligent agents that Collaborate, Observe, Reason, Act and Learn. Head of the Machine Learning Department. Past President AAAI and RoboCup. Fellow: IEEE; AAAS; AAAI. Research interests: artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics.