Qiangfu Zhao is a full professor at the University of Aizu, the head of System Intelligence Laboratory;associate editor of IEEE Transactions on SMC-B; associate editor of the International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics; and associate editor of the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation. He is the founding co-chair of the Technical Committee on Awareness Computing in IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and the Task Force on Aware Computing in IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He has organized or co-organized several workshops/symposiums/conferences, including the 19th Symposium on Intelligent Systems (FAN2009); the 2009 International Workshop on Aware Computing (IWAC2009); the 2010 International Symposium on Aware Computing (ISAC2010); and the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST2011). He has published more than 140 referred journal and international conference papers related to optimal linear system design, neuro-computing, evolutionary computing, awareness computing, and machine learning.