Dr. Phillip C.-Y. Sheu is a professor of EECS and Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  He has published two books: (1) Intelligent Robotic Planning Systems and (2) Software Engineering and Environment—An Object-Oriented Perspective, and more than 100 papers in object relational data and knowledge engineering and their applications. His current research interests include semantic computing and complex biomedical systems. He is a Fellow of IEEE and SDPS, Founding Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Semantic Computing, Founder of IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Founder of IEEE International Conference on Internet Operating Systems and New Applications, Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Semantic Computing, and a main author of the book Semantic Computing (eds. P. Sheu, H. Yu, C.V. Ramamoorthy, A. Joshi and L.A. Zadeh, IEEE and Wiley, 2010).