Luis Rueda received his BSc from the National University of San Juan, Argentina, in 1993, and his MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from Carleton University, Canada, in 1998 and 2002. He is currently a Full Professor of the School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor. His current research interests are mainly focused on devising machine learning and representation learning algorithms with applications in biomedical imaging, bioinformatics, social engineering and recommender systems. He holds four patents on machine learning and cybersecurity and has more than two hundred publications and presentations in prestigious journals and conferences in the respective fields. He currently serves as Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the International Society for Computational Biology.