Professor Meng Joo Er is currently Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute on Artificial Intelligence and Marine Robotics, School of Marine Electrical Engineering, Dalian Maritime University (DMU), China. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, fuzzy neural systems, robotics and automation, object detection, intelligent control, and marine engineering. He has authored 6 books, 21 book chapters, and more than 500 refereed journal and conference papers in his research areas of interest achieving a total citation count of more than 13,700 and an h-index of 57 based on Google Scholar. Professor Er was bestowed the Web of Science Top 1% Best Cited Paper and the Elsevier Top 20 Best Cited Paper Award in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Currently, Professor Er serves as the Editor-in-Chief of two international journals, namely Transactions on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and the International Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications. He also serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (TFS), Sensors, Asian Journal of Control, Sensors, ETRI Journal, and the International Journal of Modelling, Simulation and Scientific Computing. He was selected as an Outstanding Associate Editor of IEEE TFS in 2022. He is listed in Who’s Who in Engineering, Singapore, Edition 2013.