Anastasios Venetsanopoulos is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, and a Professor Emeritus with the Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He has authored eight books, contributed chapters to thirty books and published over 830 technical papers. He is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Canada.