Dr. Hillol Kargupta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996. He is also a co-founder of AGNIK LLC, a mobile and distributed data analytics company. Dr. Kargupta won a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2001 for his research on ubiquitous and distributed data mining. He along with his co-authors has received the best paper award in the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining for a paper on privacy-preserving data mining. He won the 2000 TRW Foundation Award and the 1997 Los Alamos Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement. His dissertation earned him the 1996 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) annual best student paper prize. He has published more than ninety peer-reviewed articles in journals, conferences, and books. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics, Part B among others. More information about him can be found at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~hillol.