Andries Engelbrecht received the M.Sc and PhD degrees from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. He is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. His research interests include aspects of swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, artificial immune systems and neural networks, with several publications in those fields. He is the head of the Computational Intelligence Research Group, University of Pretoria with a group of 40 postgraduate students. Prof. Engelbrecht is a member of the IEEE NNS task forces on Evolutionary Computation and Games, Swarm Intelligence, and Coevolution, and chairs the task force on Data, Image and Web mining. He is the author of the book, "Computational Intelligence: An Introduction'', Wiley, 2002. Occupation: Full Professor in Computer Science. Qualifications: B.Sc (Computer Science,Mathematics), University of Stellenbosch (1990). Hons-B.Sc (Computer Science), University of Stellenbosch (1992). MSc (Computer Science), University of Stellenbosch (1994). PhD (Computer Science), University of Stellenbosch (1999)