Jânio Monteiro is a Professor of the Institute of Engineering, Universidade do Algarve, in Portugal. He graduated in Electrical and Computers Engineering in 1995 from the University of Porto, and later concluded a Master and PhD degrees respectively in 2003 and 2010, also in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2003, he is a member INESC-ID Lisbon. He participated in 5 European R&D projects funded by the European Union (two of them as partner coordinator) and 6 national projects, with local companies, coordinating two of them. He was the editor of 6 books and published more than 50 articles. He is a founding member of the International Congress of Engineering and Sustainability (INCREaSE, increase.ualg.pt), of the workshop in Smart Systems (smartsys.ualg.pt), and has participated in the organizing committee of several international conferences. He is also a member of the coordination team of the Culatra 2030 project, a pilot project supported by the Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat, that aims to create a Sustainable Community in the Culatra Island, in Portugal. His main areas of interest involve Communication Networks, Smart Grids, Sensor Networks, Machine Learning, Human-Machine Interfacing and Internet of Things.