Rui P. Rocha is an Assistant Professor (tenure position) with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Coimbra and a Permanent Researcher in the Artificial Perception for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (AP4ISR) team of the Institute of Systems and Robotics – University of Coimbra (ISR-UC), both at University of Coimbra in Portugal. He received the Engineering degree, the M.Sc. degree, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, in 1996, 1999 and 2006, respectively. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and is currently a member of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems. His main research area is cooperative mobile robotics and his main research interests are multi-robot systems, human-robot team cooperation, distributed control, cooperative perception, efficient information sharing, and autonomous robots. He was involved in several FP6 and FP7 EU-funded R&D projects developed in consortium, was PI of a nationally funded research project on urban search and rescue robotics, and is currently the local coordinator of a technology transfer project on multi-robot patrolling of infrastructures developed in partnership with a start-up company. As of 2016, he is the co-author of about 90 papers published in ISI-indexed scientific journals, book chapters, and proceedings of peer-reviewed international scientific conferences. He began his career as an electrical engineer in EFACEC Automation and Robotics company, where he worked between Oct. 1996 and Jan. 2000 in the development of automated material handling devices based on AGVs and participated in the design of such systems for important customers, such as Bank of China in Hong Kong and Repsol YPF refinery in Argentina. He began his career as a teacher at Department of Informatics of University of Minho, where he taught digital systems and microelectronics between Nov. 1998 and Feb. 2000, before joining University of Coimbra as a teaching assistant and ISR-UC as a researcher.