Dr Douglas Mota Dias is a Lecturer in Computing at Atlantic Technological University’s Department of Computing and Information Systems. He holds a BSc in Computer Systems from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), as well as an MSc and a PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computational Intelligence from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Before joining ATU, Dr Mota Dias held international, academic and research positions including Post-Doctoral Researcher at PUC-Rio and the University of Limerick, Lecturer at Griffith College, and Associate Professor at UERJ. He has extensive experience in applied R&D, having collaborated on major industry projects mainly with Petrobras, Intel, and Huawei. His research has led to the creation of open-source machine learning tools and patents, including systems for automated digital circuit design and crude oil refinery scheduling optimisation. Teaching and research interests involve Evolutionary Computation, Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Explainable AI, High-Performance Computing, and Electronics.