Prof. Dr. Don Kulasiri is a professor (personal chair) and has been head of the Centre for Advanced Computational Solutions (C-fACS) at Lincoln University since 1999. His research theme is to understand the mathematical basis for biological and environmental phenomena based on physics broadly construed to assimilate data-driven machine learning and AI in phenomenological models. He has been a visiting professor at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, UK, since 2008; Princeton University, USA (2004, 2006); and the Mechanics and Computation Division, Stanford University, USA (1998). He is a fellow of the New Zealand Centre at Peking University (2018) and of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ). He has published over 190 publications and authored six research monographs on his research with leading international publishers.