as tool to understand biological systems within this large fieldluis works in bioimage informaticswhich is the application of machine learning techniques to the analysis of images of biological specimens his main focus is on the processing of large scale image data with robotic microscopesit is possible to acquire hundreds of thousands of images in dayand visual inspection of all the images becomes impossible luis has phd from carnegie mellon universitywhich is one of the leading universities in the world in the area of machine learning he is also the author of several scientific publications luis started developing open source software in as way to apply to real code what he was learning in his computer science courses at the technical university of lisbon in he started developing in python and has contributed to several open source libraries in this language he is the lead developer on mahotasthe popular computer vision package for pythonand is the contributor of several machine learning codes thank my wife rita for all her love and supportand thank my daughter anna for being the best thing ever