Jean-Christophe Nebel obtained his M.Sc. (Eng.) degree in electronics and signal processing from the Institute of Chemistry and Industrial Physics, Lyon, France, in 1992 and his Ph.D. degree in parallel programming from the University of St Etienne, France, in 1997. From 1997 to 2004, he served as a postdoctoral research associate/fellow in the computing science department at the University of Glasgow, U.K. Since 2004, he has been a permanent academic at Kingston University, London, where he holds the position of full professor of computer science. Currently, he is the director of the Knowledge Exchange and Research Institute for Cyber, Engineering, and Digital Technologies. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and machine learning, with applications including computer vision, intelligent sensing, sustainability, and bioinformatics. In 2004, Prof. Nebel was awarded the A. H. Reeve Premium by the Council of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for a journal article detailing his and his co-authors' pioneering work in developing a 3D dynamic whole body measurement system.