Dr. Vasile Palade is currently a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Coventry University, UK. He previously held several academic and research positions at the University of Oxford - UK, University of Hull - UK, and the University of Galati - Romania. His research interests are in the area of machine learning, with a focus on neural networks and deep learning, and with main application to computer vision, social network data analysis and web mining, autonomous driving, smart cities, health, among others. Prof. Palade is author and co-author of more than 200 papers in journals and conference proceedings as well as several books on machine learning and applications. He is an Associate Editor for several reputed journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Neural Networks, Knowledge and Information Systems. He has delivered keynote talks to international conferences on machine learning and applications. Dr. Vasile Palade is an IEEE Senior Member.