Prof. Dr. Maysam F. Abbod (FIET, CEng, SMIEEE, SFHEA) is a Professor at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Brunel University London. He received a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in 1987, and a PhD in Control Engineering from the University of Sheffield in 1992. From 1993 to 2006 he was with the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield as a research associate and senior research fellow. His main research interests are in intelligent systems for modeling, control and optimization. Developed systems were applied to industrial and biomedical modeling and computer control of manufacturing systems. The main research areas are Intelligent systems biomedical applications, Modelling and control of electrical power quality, Stock exchange market modeling, Intelligent systems for credit scoring, Intelligent hybrid modeling and control of distillation column systems, Time series modeling, Hybrid modeling techniques (multivariate/time series), Developments of advanced process modeling, optimization and control strategies, and Data mining and data-driven modeling techniques.