Prof. Mulgrew received his B.Sc. degree in 1979 from Queen's University Belfast. After graduation, he worked for 4 years as a Development Engineer in the Radar Systems Department at Ferranti, Edinburgh. From 1983-1986 he was a research associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He was appointed to lectureship in 1986, received his Ph.D. in 1987, promoted to senior lecturer in 1994 and became a reader in 1996. The University of Edinburgh appointed him to a Personal Chair in October 1999 (Professor of Signals and Systems). He currently holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Signal Processing. His research interests are in adaptive signal processing and estimation theory and in their application to radar and communications systems. Prof. Mulgrew is a co-author of three books on signal processing.

Jeng- Shyang Pan received the B. S. degree in Electronic Engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 1986, the M. S. degree in Communication Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, U.K. in 1996. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan. He has published more than 370 papers in which 92 papers are indexed by SCI. He is the IET Fellow, UK and the Tainan Chapter Chair, IEEE Signal Processing Society. He jointed the editorial board of International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent System , ICIC Express Letters, International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering Systems, and Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing. His current research interests include soft computing, information security and signal processing.

Manoj Kumar Tiwari is serving as Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has published more than 200 papers in International journals and international conference proceedings. His research interest includes FMS Loading & Scheduling Problems, Part-Machine Grouping, Computer Aided Process Planning, Integration of Process Planning and Scheduling, Petri Net Modeling and its Applications, Tool Management Issues in FMS, Part and Machine Grouping using Neural Network, Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing Algorithms, Assembly/Disassembly Supply Chain Management, Agent Technology and its Applications, Application of Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing Systems, Integration of Virtual Enterprise, etc.

Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan received the B.A degree, Postgraduate Certificate and M.A degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1990, 1992 and 1994, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was a predoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney in1995 – 96 and a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland in 1996–99. Since 1999 he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where he was an Assistant Professor and now is an Associate Professor. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and Pattern Recognition Journal. His research interests include evolutionary computation, pattern recognition, bioinformatics, biometrics, multiobjective evolutionary algorithms, applications of evolutionary computation and neural networks. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Amit Konar is currently a Professor in the department of Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, and Joint Coordinator, Center for Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University. Dr. Konar has been teaching and carrying out research work at this university for the past 23 years. Dr. Konar’s research areas include the study of computational intelligence algorithms and their applications to the entire domain of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Specifically, he worked on fuzzy sets and logic, neurocomputing, genetic algorithm, swarm intelligence, differential evolution, Dempster-Shafer theory and Kalman filtering, and applied the principles of computational intelligence in image understanding, control engineering, VLSI CAD, mobile robotics, bioinformatics, mobile computing, embedded systems, and affective computing.

Gerald Schaefer gained his BSc. in Computing from the University of Derby and his PhD in Computer Vision from the University of East Anglia. He worked at the Colour & Imaging Institute, University of Derby (1997-1999), in the School of Information Systems, University of East Anglia (2000-2001), in the School of Computing and Informatics at Nottingham Trent University (2001-2006), and in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Aston University (2006-2009) before joining the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough University in May 2009. His research interests are mainly in the areas of colour image analysis, content-based image retrieval, medical imaging and computational intelligence. He has published extensively in these areas with a total publication count of about 200. He is a member of the editorial board of several international journal, reviews for over 30 journals and serves on the programme committee of over 60 conferences. He is also the organiser of several international workshops and special sessions at conferences. His edited book on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CRC Press) has come out recently, and several further edited books are due to be published in 2009 and 2010.