(David) Dagan Feng received his ME in Electrical Engineering & Computing Science (EECS) from Shanghai JiaoTong University in 1982, MSc in Biocybernetics and Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1985 and 1988 respectively. After briefly working as Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside, he joined the University of Sydney at the end of 1988, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science/School of Information Technologies. He is currently Associate Dean of Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney; Honorary Research Consultant, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the largest hospital in Australia; Chair-Professor of Information Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Advisor of the European 3D-AH Project involving 9 countries; Advisory Professor, Chief Scientist, Chief Scientific Advisor and Chair of International Advisory Committee, Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai JiaoTong University; Guest Professor, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Northeastern University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xiamen University and Tsinghua University. His research area is Biomedical & Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT). He is the Founder and Director the BMIT Research Group. He has published over 500 scholarly research papers, pioneered several new research directions, made a number of landmark contributions in his field with significant scientific impact and social benefit, and received the Crump Prize for Excellence in Medical Engineering from USA. More importantly, however, is that many of his research results have been translated into solutions to real-life problems and have made tremendous improvements to the quality of life worldwide. He is a Fellow of ACS, HKIE, IEE, IEEE, and ATSE, Special Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, and has served as Chair of IFAC-TC-BIOMED.