David Saad is a professor in the Neural Computing Research Group, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, UK. His research interests include theoretical studies of areas related to information theory, the foundations of neural computing, computational complexity and cryptography, using statistical and statistical mechanics techniques. He is the author of over 120 scientific publications, the editor of On-line Learning in Neural Networks (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and coeditor (with Manfred Opper) of Advanced Mean Field Methods: Theory and Practice (The MIT Press, 2001).