Yuval Shahar is a Professor and Previous Chair of BGU’s Software and Information Systems Engineering Department and the Josef Erteschik Chair of Information Systems Engineering. He holds a B.Sc. and an M.D. (Hebrew University), an M.Sc. in computer science (Yale University), and a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences (Stanford University). After a decade at Stanford as a researcher and faculty member (Medicine and Computer Science), he joined BGU in 2000 to found and head its Medical Informatics Research Center. His research focuses on temporal reasoning, temporal data mining, temporal machine learning, therapy planning, information visualization, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, decision making, decision analysis, and decision support, as applied to biomedicine, homeland security, and information security. He has published more than 200 papers. Among multiple awards, Prof. Shahar was granted in 1995 the NIH 5-year FIRST career award; in 2005, he was granted an IBM Faculty Award; and in 2008, he received an HP Worldwide Innovation Program award. He was elected in 2005 as an International Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) and in 2017 as a Founding Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).