Hossam Dawa was born in Damascus, Syria, and obtained his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree in 1994. He later pursued a Master’s in Medical Science (Oral Surgery) at the University of Sheffield, UK, completing it in 2001. He further specialized in Aesthetic Dentistry at King’s College London, earning a Postgraduate Diploma in 2011. Dr Dawa is currently the Director of the Postgraduate Program in Digital Dentistry at CESPU University, Portugal, where he also serves as an investigator at AI & Health—Unidade de Investigação em Inteligência Artificial e Saúde and UNIPRO—Oral Pathology and Rehabilitation Research Unit, University Institute of Health Science, CESPU. He served as a mentor at Dawson Academy, UK. He is currently a Key Opinion Leader for several dental industry developers and Clinical Director at Dawa Clinic (Portugal). His research interests focus on digital dentistry, AI-driven healthcare solutions, occlusion, prosthodontics, and knowledge discovery in dental applications.

Professor José Neves is a retired full professor in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics at the School of Engineering at the University of Minho and is a researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre (Portugal). He graduated in Chemical Engineering with MSc, PhD, and Habilitation degrees from the University of Coimbra (1976), Portugal, Heriot-Watt (1981, 1983), Edinburgh, Scotland, and the University of Minho, Portugal (1988), respectively. He was also director of the Informatics and Control Area, co-founder and director of the Master's and Doctoral Programs in Biomedical Engineering (2008), and co-founder of the Master's in Law and Informatics (2011) at the University of Minho. He is a member of APPIA (Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Association) and a member of ECAI. He started his career in scientific research in the field of computer science, namely in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning, with particular relevance in topics such as knowledge representation and reasoning and evolutionary computing. His current prospects focus on the intention to integrate sectors such as psychology, economics, and computer science, leading to significant developments in areas like health care, justice, and management.

Henrique Vicente was born in S. Martinho do Porto, Portugal, and attended the University of Lisbon, where he studied Chemistry and obtained his degrees in 1988. He joined the University of Évora in 1989 and received his PhD in Chemistry in 2005. He is now an auxiliary professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Évora. He is a researcher at REQUIMTE/LAQV (University of Évora) and Algoritmi Research Center (University of Minho). He is a member of Algoritmi’s Computer Science and Technology Research line and of Algoritmi’s Knowledge Engineering group. His current interests include water quality control, lake and reservoir management, data mining, knowledge discovery from databases, knowledge representation and reasoning systems, evolutionary intelligence, and intelligent information systems.