Björn Schuller received his diploma in 1999, his doctoral degree for his study on Automatic Speech and Emotion Recognition in 2006, and his habilitation and Adjunct Teaching Professorship in the subject area of Signal Processing and Machine Intelligence in 2012, all in electrical engineering and information technology from TUM in Munich/Germany. He is a Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning in the Department of Computing at the Imperial College London (UK) and a tenured Full Professor heading the Chair of Complex Systems Engineering at the University of Passau/Germany. Dr. Schuller is president of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC), elected member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and member of the ACM, IEEE and ISCA and (co-)authored 5 books and more than 400 publications in peer reviewed books, journals, and conference proceedings leading to more than 7000 citations.