Joao is the CTO and co-founder of Latent Logic. Prior to this, João Messias had a leading role in the technical integration of several research projects on robotics and applied artificial intelligence, including TERESA, MOnarCH, and MAIS+S. He has been an active researcher on these topics since 2008, and he received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering in 2014, while at the Institute for Systems and Robotics in Lisbon. Until 2017 and in the context of the TERESA project, João was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam.