Dr. J. R. Raol was born in 1947 in India. He has BE and ME degrees from MS University of Baroda, Vadodara and PhD from McMaster University, Canada. He worked as a scientist in National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore for nearly three decades. He has been fellow/senior member/member of many professional societies/bodies and has served on many administrative/ technical/ examination committees. He has reviewed technical papers for several International Journals and visited several countries on deputation. He has guided several Master/Doctoral level students. He has authored (jointly) three technical books (one published by IEE/IET, London, UK, 2004; two by CRC Press, USA, 2008/2009) in the area of his work and specialization and has also published 150 papers/reports. He has also authored a book ‘Poetry of Life’ (Trafford Publishing, USA, Sept. 2009) containing 110 poems. His research interests are modeling, parameter estimation, data fusion, flight mechanics modeling & analysis, fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms, neural networks and robotics. His reading interests are science, evolution and philosophy.