Seong G. Kong received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1982 and 1987, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 1991, all in electrical engineering. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He is currently Professor of Computer Engineering at Sejong University, Seoul, Korea. His research interests include machine learning, computer vision, and image processing. Dr. Kong was a recipient of the Most Cited Paper Award from the COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING journal in 2007 and 2008, and the Honorable Mention Paper Award from American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers in 2005. He received a summer faculty research fellow grant at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA from the Office of Naval Research. His professional services include an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS, a Guest Editor of a special issue of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL, AUTOMATION AND SYSTEMS and JOURNAL OF SENSORS, and an Editorial Board Member of ELECTRONICS.