Pedro Pereira is a senior researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence at the CCG/ZGDV Institute and holds the position of Invited Auxiliar Professor at the Department of Information Systems at the University of Minho, where he has been teaching since 2018. Furthermore, he is a member of the IDS Research and Development (R&D) Group at ALGORITMI Centre and his main research interests are Decision Support Systems, Modern Optimization and Machine Learning.

He successfully completed his Ph.D. in Technologies and Information Systems at the same university in 2021, specializing in Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation. Engaged in various R&D projects since 2017, he has coauthored over a dozen scientific publications presented at international conferences and journals, in addition to contributing to the development of the Python module evoltree. Currently, he also co-supervises master's students in their thesis work and their involvement in R&D projects.