Ahmad Lotfi is currently a Professor of Computational Intelligence and Head of the Department of Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, where he is also leading the Computational Intelligence and Applications (CIA) research group [http://ntu.ac.uk/cia]. Areas of his research interest include computational intelligence, ambient intelligence, assistive robotics, and smart homes. His research has been recognised internationally for significant contributions to the application of computational intelligence techniques in control systems and intelligent environments. He has supervised many research fellows and over 20 PhD research students to successful completion. He has worked in collaboration with many healthcare commercial organisations and end-users. He has authored and co-authored over 250 scientific papers in the area of computational intelligence, anomaly detection and machine learning in highly prestigious journals and international conferences. He has been invited as an Expert Evaluator and Panel Member for many EU Framework Research Programmes. More details are available from: [http://www.lotfi.uk]