Prof. Mika Sato-Ilic holds the position of Professor in the Institute of Systems and Information Engineering and Chair of College of Policy and Planning Sciences, at the University of Tsukuba. She also occupies the position of Visiting Professor in the Statistical Research and Training Institute in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan, as well as, serving as a member of a committee in the Financial Services Agency in Japan. In addition, she held the position of Vice President of the National Statistics Center in Japan. She was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IJKESD, Associate Editors of Neurocomputing, Information Sciences, and Regional Editor of International Journal on Intelligent Decision Technologies and serves on the editorial board of several other journals. In addition, she was a Council of the International Association for Statistical Computing a section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), and is currently an elected member of the ISI, a Senior Member of the IEEE where she holds the position of Vice-Chair of the Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and has held several other positions. Also, she has worked on several IEEE committees, including the administration committee, program co-chair, and special sessions co-chair. Her academic output includes 4 books, 17 book chapters, and over 250 journal and conference papers. Her research interests include the development of methods for data mining, multi-dimensional data analysis, multi-mode multi-way data theory, pattern classification, and computational intelligence techniques for which she has received several academic awards.