José Oramas Mogrovejo is an assistant professor at IDLab, University of Antwerp and imec, where he joined in October 2019 and obtained tenure in September 2024. He holds an engineering degree from Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral in Ecuador and a PhD from KU Leuven (ESAT-PSI, 2015), supervised by Tinne Tuytelaars and Luc De Raedt. His current research covers representation learning, computer vision, and the interpretability and explainability of AI and machine learning models, with a focus on exploratory and explanatory models that identify informative intermediate representations.