Decebal Mocanu is Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning within the DMB group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science at the University of Twente and Guest Assistant Professor within the Data Mining group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Since September 2017 until February 2020, Decebal was Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at TU Eindhoven and a member of TU Eindhoven Young Academy of Engineering. In 2017, he received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Network Science from TU Eindhoven. During his doctoral studies, Decebal undertook three research visits: the University of Pennsylvania (2014), Julius Maximilian University of Wurzburg (2015), and University of Texas, Austin (2016). Decebal medium-term research interest is to conceive scalable deep artificial neural network models and their corresponding learning algorithms using principles from network science, evolutionary computing, optimization and neuroscience. Such models shall have sparse and evolutionary connectivity, make use of previous knowledge, and have strong generalization capabilities to be able to learn, and to reason, using few examples in a continuous and adaptive manner. Inspired by Aristotle quote from Metaphysics “The whole is more than the sum of its parts”, in the long term, Decebal would like to study the synergy between artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and network science for the benefits of science and society.