U. R. Acharya, MTech, Ph.D., DEng, DSc is a senior faculty member at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. He is also (i) an adjunct professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia; (ii) an adjunct professor at Asia University, Taiwan; (iii) associate faculty at Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore; and (iv) an adjunct professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He received his PhD from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (Surathkal, India), DEng from Chiba University (Japan), and DSc from AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland. He has published more than 500 papers in refereed international SCI-IF journals (345), international conference proceedings (42), and books (17), with more than 41,000 citations in Google Scholar (with an h-index of 105). He has worked on various funded projects, with grants worth more than 6 million SGD. He is ranked in the top 1% of the highly cited researchers for the last five consecutive years (2016 to 2020) in computer science according to the Essential Science Indicators of Thomson. He is on the editorial board of many journals and has served as a guest editor for many journals. Please visit https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=8FjY99sAAAAJ&hl=en for more details.