João Gama was born in Lamego, Portugal, in 1954. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Porto, Portugal. He is Associate Professor at the University of Porto and a senior researcher at LIAAD Inesc Tec. His main interests are Machine Learning, Data Mining, mainly in the context of data streams. He published more than 200 papers in major International conferences and journals, served as chair at ECML05, DS09, ADMA09, IDA11, and ECMLPKDD 2015. He co-organized a series of workshops on learning from data streams in conjunction with ECML-PKDD, KDD, SAC and ICML. He is member of the editorial board of MLJ, DAMI, NGC, KAIS, and PAI and he is author of a recent book in Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams.