Nathan S. Netanyahu is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and is also affiliated with the Gonda Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University and the Center for Automation Research/UMIACS at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has previously worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Space Data and Computing Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and for the Center for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS) at NASA/GSFC. Professor Netanyahu's current research interests are in the areas of computational intelligence, computational statistics, image processing, pattern recognition, and remote sensing. He has coauthored roughly 100 refereed papers that appeared in journals, international conference proceedings, and book chapters, has served as Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition, and is co-editor of the books, Computer and Games, 4th International Conference (by Springer Verlag, 2006) and Image Registration for Remote Sensing, published by Cambridge University Press, 2011.