Tofigh Allahviranloo is a full professor of applied mathematics at Istinye University, Turkey. As a trained mathematician and computer scientist, Prof. Allahviranloo has developed a passion for multi- and interdisciplinary research. He is not only deeply involved in fundamental research in fuzzy applied mathematics, especially fuzzy differential equations, but he also aims at innovative applications in the applied biological sciences. He is the author of several books and many papers published by Elsevier and Springer. He actively serves the research community, as Editor-in-Chief of the International J. of Industrial Mathematics, and Associate Editor or editorial board member of several other journals, including Information Sciences, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Iranian J. of Fuzzy Systems and Mathematical Sciences. Dr. Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Fellow, 1998) is Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in computational intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. In 2012 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His main research directions involve computational intelligence, fuzzy modeling and granular computing, knowledge discovery and data science, pattern recognition, data science, knowledge-based neural networks, and control engineering. He is also an author of 18 research monographs and edited volumes covering various aspects of computational intelligence, data mining, and software engineering. Dr. Pedrycz is vigorously involved in editorial activities. He is the editor-in-chief of Information Sciences, editor-in-chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and co-editor-in-chief of International Journal of Granular Computing, and Journal of Data Information and Management. He serves on the advisory board of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.