Paweł Pławiak, B.Eng., M.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., was born in Ostrowiec, Poland in 1984. He obtained his B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications, his Ph.D. degree with honors in Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland, and his D.Sc. degree in Technical Computer Science and Telecommunications at the Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland in 2012, 2016 and 2020, respectively. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications and Associate Professor at the Cracow University of Technology, Cracow; Deputy Director for Research at the National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw; and Associate Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gliwice, Poland. He has published more than 40 papers in refereed international SCI-IF journals. He is an academic editor and reviewer of many prestigious and reputed journals. His research interests include machine learning and computational intelligence (e.g., artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy systems, support vector machines, k-nearest neighbor and hybrid systems), ensemble learning, deep learning, evolutionary computation, classification, pattern recognition, signal processing and analysis, data analysis and data mining, sensor techniques, medicine, biocybernetics, biomedical engineering and telecommunications.