N. Siddique is with the School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University. He obtained Dipl.-Ing. degree in Cybernetics from the TU Dresden, Germany, MSc in Computer Science from BUET, Bangladesh and PhD in Intelligent Control from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, England. His research interests include: robotics, cybernetics, computational intelligence, nature-inspired computing, stochastic systems and vehicular communication. He has published over 170 research papers. He authored and co-authored five books published by John Wiley, Springer and Taylor & Francis. He guest edited eight special issues of reputed journals on Cybernetic Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Neural Networks and Robotics. He has been involved in organizing many international conferences and co-edited conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a senior member of IEEE and a member of different committees of IEEE SMCS. He is on the editorial board of the Nature Scientific Research, Journal of Behavioural Robotics, Engineering Letters, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition, International Journal of Advances in Robotics Research and also on the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Neural Systems.