João Magalhães is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Computer Science Dep. at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He holds a Ph.D. degree (2008) from Imperial College London, UK. His research aims to move vision and language AI closer to the way humans understand it and communicate. He has made contributions to the fields of multimedia search and summarization, multimodal conversational AI, data mining and multimodal information representation. He has coordinated and participated in several research projects (national, EU-FP7 and H2020) where he generalizes his research to many different application domains, e.g., BBC, VisionBox, Farfetch, Amazon. He is regularly involved in review panels, organization of international conferences and program committees. His work and the work of his group has been awarded, or nominated for, several honours and distinctions. He was the General Chair of the ECIR 2020, ACM Multimedia 2022 and the Honorary Chair for ACM Multimedia Asia 2021.