Toshihisa Tanaka is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. He is Co-editor of Signal Processing Techniques for Knowledge Extraction and Information Fusion, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, and Advances in Data Science and Adaptive Analysis. He is also a member-at-large of the board of governors of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the IEICE and APSIPA.

Mahnaz Arvaneh is a Lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering and a member of Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Health (CATCH) at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is an Associate Editor in IEEE Transaction on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, as well as a technical committee member for APSIPA and the IEEE Systems, Man, Cybernetics conference. Through her research, she aims to improve our understanding of the human body, both to address fundamental questions in the control of physiological systems and to develop improved therapeutic, assistive, adaptive and rehabilitative technologies for a variety of medical conditions.