Guy De Tré is Full professor at the Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Ghent University. He is head of the Database, Document, and Content Management (DDCM) research group. His research activities are centred on computational intelligence in information management systems, including fundamental research on uncertainty handling, multi-valued logics and spatio-temporal modelling and applied research on, among others, big data (NoSQL databases), information fusion, flexible querying, decision support, data quality, and unstructured data. He is (co)author of more than scientific 275 publications including 15 books, 36 book chapters and 92 journal papers. His work has been awarded with 5 best paper awards on international conferences and the 40th Anniversary medal of the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is area editor of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems and member of the editorial board of Fuzzy Sets and Systems and Information Fusion. He is board member of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) and is the scientific coordinator of the post academic tracks on ‘Big Data’ and ‘Big Data hands-on’ of the Ghent University Academy for Engineers (UGain).