Thiagalingam Kirubarajan was born in Sri Lanka in 1969. He received the B.A. and M.A. degrees in electrical and information engineering from Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. His research interests include estimation, target tracking, multisource information fusion, sensor resource management, signal detection, and fault diagnosis. His research activities are supported by U.S. Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Office ofNaval Research, NASA, Qualtech Systems, Inc., Raytheon Canada, Ltd., and Defense Research Development Canada, Ottawa. In September 2001, he served in a DARPA expert panel on unattended surveillance, homeland defense, and counterterrorism. He has also served as a Consultant in these areas to a number of com- panies, including Motorola Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation, Lockhead Martin Corporation, Qualtech Systems, Inc., Orincon Corporation, and BAE Systems. He has worked on the development of a number of engineering software programs, including BEARDAT for target localization from bearing and frequency measurements in clutter and FUSEDAT for fusion of multisensor data for tracking. He has also worked with Qualtech Systems, Inc., to develop an advanced fault diagnosis engine. He has authored/coauthored more than 360 articles in the areas of his research interests, in addition to one book on estimation, tracking and navigation, four edited volumes, and 12 book chapters. Dr. Kirubarajanwas the recipient of IEEE BarryAward andOntario Premier’s Research ExcellenceAward. Since 2004, he has been a Canada Research Chair in InformationFusion.