Petre Stoica received his PhD from the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, Romania, and is a Professor of System Modeling at Uppsala University. He has held visiting positions at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Florida, and Stanford University. He has published 7 books, 10 book chapters, and some 500 technical papers. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy.