Ronald R. Yager is a fellow of the IEEE, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Fuzzy Systems Association. He has served at the NSF as program director in the Information Sciences program. He was a NASA/Stanford visiting fellow as well as a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as a lecturer at NATO Advanced Study Institutes. He received his undergraduate degree from the City College of New York and his Ph. D. from the Polytechnic University of New York. Currently, he is Director of the Machine Intelligence Institute and Professor of Information and Decision Technologies at Iona College. He is editor and chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems. He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals including the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, the Journal of Approximate Reasoning and the International Journal of General Systems. He is one of the co_founders of the conference on Information Processing and the Management of Uncertainty (IPMU). He has published over 500 articles and fifteen books. In addition to his pioneering work in the area of fuzzy logic he has made fundamental contributions in decision making under uncertainty and the fusion of information. His current research interests include the development of technologies for a more intelligent internet (E-Commerce, data mining, information retrieval) aggregation theory, decision making under uncertainty and higher order information fusion.