U. R. Acharya, Ph.D., DEng, DSc, is a Professor in School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing, at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia; Distinguished Professor (Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare) at the International Research Organization for Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Japan; Adjunct Professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia; Adjunct Professor at the Asia University, Taiwan. His research interests include biomedical imaging and signal processing, data mining, and visualization, as well as applications of biophysics for better healthcare design and delivery. His funded research has accrued cumulative grants exceeding six million Singapore dollars. He has authored over 500 publications, including 345 in refereed international journals, 42 in international conference proceedings, and 17 books. He has received over 70,000 citations on Google Scholar, with an h-index of 132. According to the Essential Science Indicators by Thomson, he consistently ranked among the top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers in Computer Science for the last seven years (2016 through 2022). He currently sits on the Editorial Boards of multiple journals and has served as Guest Editor on several AI-related issues. Please visit https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=8FjY99sAAAAJ&hl=en for more details.