∴ Jose F. Rodrigues Jr. is an Associate Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. from this same university, part of which was carried out at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, in 2007. Rodrigues is a regular reviewer and author in his field, having contributed with publications in major journals and conferences. His topics of research include data science, machine learning, content-based data retrieval, visualization, and the application of such techniques in the analysis of medical, agriculture, and e-learning domains ∴