Fábio André Machado Porto is a Senior Technologist at LNCC. He holds a DSc from PUC-Rio, with sandwich at INRIA. From 2004 and 2009 he was a posdoc and senior researcher at EPFL, in Lausanne. He is the founder and Head of the Data Extreme Lab, at LNCC, guiding research and development activities in Big Data Management, AI and Data Analysis, applied to domains such as: Astronomy, Public Health, Meteorology and Sports. He was the General Chair of VLDB 2019 and SBBD 2015 and is currently a member of the SBBD steering Committee.