Joao Paulo Papa is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil. He is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He is also the Brazilian representative on the International Association for Pattern Recognition committee and an IEEE Senior member. He is a senior editor at the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and an associate editor of the Pattern Recognition journal. He served as a visiting professor at the Harvard University (2014-2015) and the MIT (2024-2025). He is the head of the Data Science Program at the Sao Paulo Research Foundation and a member of the advisory committee in Computer Science at the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.