Dr. Jacek Zurada is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a post-doc at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at NUS and NTU (Singapore). He has authored several textbooks including the pioneering neural networks text and over 440 refereed publications in deep learning, neural networks and image/signal processing that have resulted in over 13,300 citations. He has advised 23 PhD students, now leaders in academia, Google, Facebook and Amazon. He has also served industry and start-ups as a consultant. Dr. Zurada has delivered over 160 invited plenary conference presentations and seminars, including Distinguished Lectures for three IEEE Societies. He received numerous IEEE, university and scholarly society awards for research, teaching and service. He was elected to the Polish Academy of Sciences and received six honorary doctorates and professorships.