Mikel Galar received MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science in 2009 and 2012, both from the Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Statistics, Computer Science and Mathematics at the Public University of Navarre. He is the author of 42 published original articles in international journals and more than 60 contributions to conferences. He is also a reviewer of more than 35 international journals. He is a co-author of a book on imbalanced datasets and he has acted as guest editor for special issues in journals such as Cognitive Computation and Big Data Analytics. His research interests are machine learning, deep learning, ensemble learning, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems, and big data. He is involved in the applications of these techniques to the industry, healthcare and remote sensing. He is an external scientific advisor at Tracasa Instrumental, S.L. and Co-founder of Neuraptic AI. He is a member of the IEEE, the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) and the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA). He has received the extraordinary prize for his PhD thesis from the Public University of Navarre and the 2013 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy System Outstanding Paper Award for the paper “A New Approach to Interval-Valued Choquet Integrals and the Problem of Ordering in Interval-Valued Fuzzy Set Applications” (bestowed in 2016).