Rui Sarmento has a degree in Electrical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, and an MSc in Data Analysis and Decision Support Systems in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto. He has worked in several areas from an international technical support center to software development companies focusing on Communications and Intranet solutions with Linux-based Enterprise Operating Systems. He has also worked for the leading public transportation company in his hometown, Porto, as a Project Management engineer in the IT area. Rui Sarmento is also involved with the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support at INESC TEC, researching Large Social Networks Analysis and Visualization for his Ph. D. thesis, in the areas of NLP, Information Retrieval, and Text Documents Streams.