Belur VDasarathy, an IEEE Fellow is an internationally known expert in the field of information fusion and is currently a consultant in this field. He is the founding editor in chief of the Information Fusion Journal and served in that capacity for more than a decade starting from its initiation until 2014. He has nearly 200 publications in various areas of interest and has authored three books published by IEEE Computer Society. He has won several awards including the IEEE Millennium Medal 2000, IEEE Region 3 Engineer of The Year 1997, etc. He has been keynote speaker at more than two dozen international conferences over the past decade. He has been the organizing chair of dozens of conferences for SPIE in the areas of information fusion, data mining, and related topics. Belur VDasarathy, an IEEE Fellow is an internationally known expert in the field of information fusion and is currently a consultant in this field. He is the founding editor in chief of the Information Fusion Journal and served in that capacity for more than a decade starting from its initiation until 2014. He has nearly 200 publications in various areas of interest and has authored three books published by IEEE Computer Society. He has won several awards including the IEEE Millennium Medal 2000, IEEE Region 3 Engineer of The Year 1997, etc. He has been keynote speaker at more than two dozen international conferences over the past decade. He has been the organizing chair of dozens of conferences for SPIE in the areas of information fusion, data mining, and related topics.

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