Sabri Arik is a Professor of Computer Science, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa. He received a B.S. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1989 and an M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 1993 from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical-Electronics and Information Engineering from the London South Bank University, London, U.K., in 1997. His current research interests include stability theory of dynamical neural networks and image processing. He has authored or coauthored more than 80 SCI journal papers and numerous conference papers in these areas. According to the data provided by the WoS, his publications have received 5350 citations, and his h-index is 42.  He currently serves on the editorial boards of many journals in different capacities: Mathematical Modelling and Control, Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Neural Processing Letters and Mathematics. He is a member of the Technical Committee of IEEE Cellular Nanoscale Networks and Memristor Array Computing. He is also a board member of Asia Pacific Neural Network Society. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Young Scientist Award in 2002 from the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the Junior Science Award in 2005 from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. He was included in the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers 2014 list.