Christian Walter Peter Omlin received his M.Eng. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Zurich in 1987 and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, in 1995. He worked as a visiting scientist at the NEC Research Institute, Princeton, USA (1991–1996), and later held senior academic appointments in South Africa, Cyprus, and Fiji, including professorships at the University of the Western Cape (2001–2004); the University of the South Pacific (2004–2007); Middle East Technical University, Cyprus (2007–2012); and the University of the Witwatersrand (2012–2014). In 2018, he joined the University of Agder, Norway, as a professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technology and in 2022 was appointed honorary professor at the School of Computing, University of South Africa. His research topics mainly include artificial intelligence, explainable AI, deep learning for spatiotemporal data, anomaly detection, reinforcement learning, and machine ethics with applications in Industry 4.0, health, finance, and critical infrastructure.