Ajith Abraham received his M.Sc. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 1998, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in 2001. He is currently the Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs). He has more than 40,000 academic citations. From 2011 to 2013, he served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Computer Society, representing Europe. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and serves/has served for the editorial board of over 15 international journals indexed by Thomson ISI.