Frederick E. Petry received BS and MS degrees in physics and a PhD in computer and information science from the Ohio State University. He is currently a computer scientist in the Naval Research Laboratory at the Stennis Space Center Mississippi. He has been on the faculty of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the Ohio State University, and Tulane University, where he is an Emeritus Professor. His recent research interests include representation of imprecision via soft computing in databases, spatial and environmental information systems, and machine learning. Dr. Petry has over 350 scientific publications, including 150 journal articles/book chapters and 9 books written or edited. His monograph on fuzzy databases has been widely recognized as a definitive volume on this topic. Dr. Petry was a recipient of the Outstanding Researcher Award of the Year in the Tulane University School of Engineering in 2002, and the Naval Research Laboratory’s Berman Research Publication Awards in 2004, 2008, and 2010. He has been the General or Honorary Chairperson of several international conferences, and for his research on the use of fuzzy sets for modeling imprecision in databases and information systems he was elected an IEEE Life Fellow, AAAS Fellow, IFSA Fellow, AAIA Fellow, and ACM Distinguished Scientist. In 2016, he received the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Pioneer Award.