Arvind K. Bansal received the BTech (electrical engineering) and MTech (computer science) degree from the Indian Institute of Techology at Kanpur in 1979 and 1983. He received the PhD (computer science) degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1988. He is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. His research interests and research contributions are in bioinformatics, distributed artificial intelligence, logic programming, multimedia Information retrieval, and distributed multimedia environments and languages. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a member of the American Association of Advancement of Science.