ERCHIN SERPEDIN is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station. He is the author of 2 research monographs, 1 edited textbook, 8 book chapters, 90 journal papers and 150 conference papers, and has served as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wieless Communications, Signal Processing (Elsevier), IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. His research interests include statistical signal processing, information theory, bioinformatics, and genomics. He is an IEEE Fellow.