METIN AKAY, PHD, is the Interim Chair and Professor of Bioengineering for the Harrington Department of Bioengineering at the Arizona State University. Dr. Akay is the founding Series Editor of the IEEE Press Series on Biomedical Engineering. In 1997, he received the prestigious Early Career Achievement Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). He was the program chair of both the annual IEEE EMBS Conference and Summer School for 2001. Dr. Akay has published several papers in the field and authored, coauthored, or edited fourteen books. He is also the editor in chief of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering.