(David) Dagan Feng received his ME in Electrical Engineering & Computing Science (EECS) from Shanghai JiaoTong University in 1982, MSc in Biocybernetics and Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1985 and 1988 respectively. After briefly working as Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside, he joined the University of Sydney at the end of 1988, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science, School of Information Technologies. He is currently Associate Dean of Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney. He is also Honorary Research Consultant, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the largest hospital in Australia; Chair-Professor of Information Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Advisory Professor, Shanghai JiaoTong University; Guest Professor, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Northeastern University and Tsinghua University. His research area is Biomedical & Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT). He is the Founder and Director the BMIT Research Group. He has published over 300 scholarly research papers, pioneered several new research directions, made a number of landmark contributions in his field with significant scientific impact and social benefit, and received the Crump Prize for Excellence in Medical Engineering from USA. More importantly, however, is that many of his research results have been translated into solutions to real-life problems and have made tremendous improvements to the quality of life for those involved worldwide. He is a Fellow of ACS, ATSE, HKIE, IEE, and IEEE. Special Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, and is the current Chairman of IFAC-TC-BIOMED.