Dan Stefanoiu received an M.S. in Automatic Control and Computer Science (1986) and a Ph.D. in Automatic Systems (1995) from the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, as well as an MS in Mathematics (1993) from the University of Bucharest. Since 2005, he has been a full professor at the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest. His research interests include (but are not limited to) Signal Processing (especially with wavelets), System Identification (especially with fast algorithms), Metaheuristic Optimization and Control, Data Compression, Robotics and Applied Mathematics. Dr. Stefanoiu has been a full member of the Romanian Society of Automation and Technical Informatics since 1990 and of the American–Romanian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2002. He also is the recipient of five prizes granted by three Romanian academies for the best published books in English (at Wiley in London, UK) and French (at Hermes-Lavoisier in Paris, France).