Bogdan Gabrys is a Data Scientist, a Chair in Computational Intelligence and a Head of Data Science Institute at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, UK. He received an MSc degree in Electronics and Telecommunication (Specialization: Computer Control Systems) from the Silesian Technical University, Poland in 1994 and a PhD in Computer Science from the Nottingham Trent University, UK in 1998. In January 2003, when he joined Bournemouth University, he was given an opportunity to form, build and lead a Computational Intelligence Research Group (CIRG) which had quickly grown and in Sep 2007 became a part of the Smart Technology Research Centre (STRC) which he also founded and led. Building on continued growth and success, in June 2014, he had initiated the creation of an interdisciplinary Data Science Institute at BU which he had also been asked to lead. Over the last 20 years, Prof. Gabrys has been working at various universities and research and development departments of commercial institutions based in three different countries, which allowed him to establish a wide network of links and collaborations with various commercial organizations and research groups within UK and abroad. Since accepting his first independent academic position his research activities have concentrated on the areas of data science, complex adaptive systems, computational intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics and their diverse applications. In particular, he has pursued the development of various statistical, machine learning, nature inspired and hybrid intelligent techniques especially targeting data and information fusion, learning and adaptive methods, multiple classifier and prediction systems, processing and modelling of uncertainty in pattern recognition, diagnostic analysis and decision support systems. Prof. Gabrys is supervising a number of PhD research students and is currently actively involved in various funded research projects. He has published over 140 research papers, reviewed for various journals, edited books and special issues of journals, chaired conferences, workshops and special sessions and been on programme committees of a large number of international conferences with the Data Science, Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Mining themes. He is frequently invited to give keynote and plenary talks at international conferences and lectures at internationally leading research centres and commercial research labs. Prof. Gabrys recently co-ordinated an EU funded INFER project. He is also the Chair, Academic Affairs of KES International, a Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Knowledge Based & Intelligent Engineering Systems, and, among others, was a co-chair of a very successful KES’2006 conference. Prof. Gabrys was a co-chairman of the Nature-inspired Data Technology focus group within the EU Coordination Action project on Nature-inspired Smart Information Systems (NiSIS). He was also a corresponding person for a Key Node in the European Network on Intelligent Technologies for Smart Adaptive Systems (EUNITE) and a co-chairman of the Research Theory & Development Group on Integration of Methods. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Memebr of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).