Mo Jamshidi, Ph.D., DEng. Dr. H. C. (F-IEEE, F-ASME, F-AAAS, F-NYAS, F-TWAS, F-HAE) is the Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the AT&T Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and founding Director of Center for Autonomous Control Engineering (ACE) at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA. He is a Senior Research Advisor at US Air Force Research Laboratory, KAFB, NM. He was an advisor for the NASA Headquarters (1996-2003), NASA JPL (1993-1997) and an advisor to DOE-ORNL (1989-94), DOE Headquarters with Office of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (2003-2004). He has worked over 4 years in industry at IBM Corporation and General Motors Corporation (USA) and Siemens Automotive, France. He holds four honorary doctoral degrees, including a Doctor of Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2004 and Technical University of Crete, Greece, 2004. He has over 550 technical publications including 54 books and edited volumes. Six of his books have been translated into at least one foreign language and used for teaching in 4 or more languages, as textbooks around the world. He is known around the globe on his contributions to modeling, control and applications of large-scale complex systems, which is a building block of what is now known as System of Systems Engineering (SoSE). His two-editions of his book on the complex systems have been used in 55 nations in 7 languages. He is the Founding Editor or co-founding editor or Editor-in-Chief of 5 journals (including Elsevier's International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering Elsevier, UK, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, TSI Press, USA) and one magazine (IEEE Control Systems Magazine). He was the series editor for ASME Press Series on Robotics and Manufacturing from 1988 to 1996 and Prentice Hall Series on Environmental and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems from 1991 to 1998. He has been program or general chairs of several IEEE and World Automation Congress (WAC, wacong.org) national and international conferences since 1974. Currently, he served as the Vice President for Conferences and Meetings for the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics and General Chairman of the IEEE Systems, man and Cybernetics Conference in Hawaii in October, 2005 (ieeesmc2005.unm.edu). He is a fellow of IEEE, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), NYAS (New York Academy of Science), TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences) and HAE (Hungarian Academy of Engineering).