Dorel Aiordachioaie earned, from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania, a BSc and MSc in  Electronics and Telecommunications (1986) and PhD in Automatic Systems (1997), from Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania. He is now Professor of the Electronics and Telecommunications Department, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati. His work in process modeling, simulation and signal processing has resulted in more of 300 publications, presentations, lectures and courses; he is a member of IEEE. His research interests include statistical signal processing, including image processing under machine learning paradigm.