Luis Torgo is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) on Spatiotemporal Ocean Data Analytics and a Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Dalhousie University, Canada. He also holds appointments as an Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal, and as an invited professor of the Stern Business School of the New York University where he has been teaching in recent years at the Master of Science in Business Analytics.

At Dalhousie University he is a researcher of the Institute for Big Data Analytics where he heads the Ocean Data Analytics lab. He is also a senior researcher of LIAAD / INESC Tec.