L. Iantovics received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) and a Master of Science (MSc) in Mathematics and Informatics from Transilvania University in Brașov, a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, and undertook postdoctoral research in AI at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași. In 2020, he obtained a habilitation degree from George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș (UMFST). He is a full professor and the director of the Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Smart Engineering (ARTEMIS) at UMFST, a position he has held since 2021. Since 2020, he has been a PhD supervisor at the UMFST doctoral school. His principal research interests include biomimetic computing, intelligent systems, measuring machine intelligence, computational intelligence, biostatistics and data science. He has published numerous papers and book chapters on these topics and has contributed to research projects as a project director or researcher.