Dr. Ujjwal Maulik is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India since 2004. He is co-author of seven books for Springer and Wiley, more than 250 research publications, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems and Information Sciences. His research interests include computational intelligence, bioinformatics, combinatorial optimization, pattern recognition, and data mining.