Mikhail Skliar received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Odessa State Polytechnic University, Odessa, Ukraine, the Ph.D. degree in control of technical systems from National Technical University of Ukraine (KPI), Kiev, Ukraine, and the Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1986, 1991, and 1996, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. He is the author of over 70 research papers with current research interests in filtering and control, control of medical therapies, devices, and imaging, and sensor development for material characterization and biomedical applications. Dr. Skliar was a recipient of several awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Control Systems Technology and as a Guest Editor of the international journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.