Mahmood R. Azimi-Sadjadi received his MS and PhD degrees from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, UK. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director of the Digital Signal/Image Processing Laboratory at Colorado State University, USA. His research spans statistical signal and image processing, machine learning algorithms and applications, and adaptive systems. A life member of IEEE who served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and Neural Networks, Mahmood received the 1999 Abell Faculty Teaching Award of Excellence from the College of Engineering.