Ulisses Braga-Neto, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. His main research areas are pattern recognition, machine learning, statistical signal processing, and applications in bioinformatics and materials informatics. He has worked extensively in the field of error estimation for pattern recognition and machine learning, having received an NSF CAREER award for research in this area, and co-authored a monograph with Edward R. Dougherty on the topic. He has also made contributions to the field of Mathematical morphology in signal and image processing.