Luis Moreira-Matias holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from the U. Porto, Portugal. He possesses a world-class academic track with high impact publications at top tier venues in ML/AI fundamentals (e.g.: ECML/PKDD, ACM SIGKDD, AAAI), 5 patents and multiple keynotes worldwide - ranging from Brisbane (Australia) to Las Palmas (Spain).

During his 15 years of career, Luis led 50+ FTEs (hired 30+, factually groomed 10+) across 4+ organisations to develop award-winning ML solutions to address real-world problems in various fields such as e-commerce, travel, logistics, and finance. Their impact trait sit in the billion-scale.

Currently, he is Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence at Sennder (current valuation: 2B) – Europe’s #1 digital freight-forwarder platform. At sennder, Luis founded sennAI: sennder’s organization that oversees the creation (from R&D to real-world productisation) of proprietary AI technology for the road logistics industry. His teams have an eNPS of 86/100.