Marios M. Polycarpou is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Director of the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks. He received the B.A. degree in Computer Science and the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering both from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. In 1992, he joined the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, where he reached the rank of Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. In 2001, he was the first faculty member to join the newly established Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus. Dr. Polycarpou has published more than 175 articles in refereed journals, edited books and refereed conference proceedings, and co-authored (with Jay Farrell) the book Adaptive Approximation Based Control, published by Wiley in 2006. He is also the holder of 3 patents. His research has been funded by several agencies in the United States, the European Commission, and the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus. He was the recipient of the William H. Middendorf Research Excellence Award at the University of Cincinnati (1997) and was nominated by students for the Professor of the Year award (1996). He served as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, IEEE Control Systems Society (2003-05) and as Vice President, Conferences, of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2002-03). Dr. Polycarpou is a Fellow of the IEEE and he is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.