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. He is the President of the Board of Directors of CINTAL, a Technological Research Center of the Algarve, and the President of the Technical-Scientific Council of the Institute of Engineering of the University of Algarve. He is also a member of the direction of the PhD in Electrical Engineering, from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Algarve. He was the President of the Pedagogical Council of the Institute of Engineering and the Director of the Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computers Engineering. He participated in 14 European R&D projects funded by the European Union, 5 as Principal Investigator (PI), and 8 national projects, with local companies, 2 as PI. He successfully applied and directly managed more than 1.5 Million Euros of investments in several R&D projects of the University of Algarve. He was the editor of 3 books and published more than 80 scientific works. He was 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 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 Smart Grids, Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Communication Networks and Neural Computing.