Alberto Vale is a Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and Senior Researcher at Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion. Colleagues describe him as "Alberto was at the core of all R&D development during the creation of our initial product named PLMI. With him behind algorithm development I needed not to worry about bugs, quality or deadlines. His work was outstanding and two years after he left his skills are still present in the helicopters flying our real time automatic inspection systems."