Pramod K. Varshney received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1972, 1974, and 1976, respectively. Since 1976 he has been with Syracuse University, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Director of CASE: Center for Advanced Systems and Engineering. His current research interests are in distributed sensor networks and data fusion, detection and estimation theory, wireless communications, image processing, radar signal processing and remote sensing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has received numerous awards. He serves as a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. He was the 2001 president of International Society of Information Fusion.