Prof. Dr. Marek R. Ogiela Employee of the Chair of Automatic Control Engineering at the AGH University of Science and Technology; conducts research on automatic analysis and image understanding systems, intelligent information systems, mathematical linguistics and AI as well as cryptographic aspects of computer security systems. In 1992 M. R. Ogiela graduated from the Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Mathematics, Chair of Computer Science. In 1996 for his honours doctoral thesis on syntactic methods of analysis and image recognition he was awarded the title of Doctor of Control Engineering and Robotics at the Faculty of Electrical, Automatic Control, Computer Science and Electronic Engineering of the AGH University of Science and Technology. In 2001 he was awarded the title of Doctor Habilitated in Computer Science for his research on medical image automatic analysis and understanding. In 2005 he received a professor title in technical sciences. Member of many prestigious scientific associations, including: SPIE, SCAR, IEEE Computer Society. Author of more than 140 international publications in the field of analysis, recognition, machine perception and image understanding as well as AI. In his research M. R. Ogiela develops also the fields of information techniques and cryptography, computer systems security and multimedia techniques. Laureate of many prestigious awards, including Prof. Takliński's award and Prof. Engels's award. Reviewer of world scientific periodicals, inter alia, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal and Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, and Journal of Biomedical Informatics.