S. J. Ovaska received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, in 1980, the Lic.Sc. degree in computer science and engineering from Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, in 1987, and the D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Tampere University of Technology in 1989. He is currently a Professor of Industrial Electronics in the Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology. Before joining Helsinki University of Technology in 1996, he was a Professor of Electronics at Lap-peenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland. From 1980 to 1992, he held engineering, research, and R&D management positions with Kone Elevators and Nokia Research Center, both in Finland and the U.S. His research interests are soft computing, signal processing, fault diagnosis, and control instrumentation. During his career, he has authored or coauthored more than 180 technical papers published in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. He is the holder of nine patents in the area of systems and control. Prof. Ovaska is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUS-TRIAL ELECTRONICS. He served as an Elected Member of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society's Board of Governors (2001 2003). Also, he was the Founding General Chair of the 1998 IEEE Nordic Workshop on Power and Industrial Electronics, as well as the Founding General Chair of the 1999 IEEE Midnight-Sun Workshop on Soft Computing Methods in Industrial Applications. In addition, he was the recipient of two Outstanding Contribution Awards from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (2000 and 2002). Research interests: Fusion of soft computing and hard computing. Soft computing methods and applications. Computational intelligence. Digital signal processing. Industrial electronics. Editor of the book "Computationally Intelligent Hybrid Systems, ISBN: 978-0-471-47668-9"