Lance M. Kaplan received the B.S. degree with distinction from Duke University, Durham, NC, in 1989 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1991 and 1994, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1987-1990, Dr. Kaplan worked as a Technical Assistant at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He held a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and a USC Dean's Merit Fellowship from 1990-1993, and worked as a Research Assistant in the Signal and Image Processing Institute at the University of Southern California from 1993-1994. Then, he worked on staff in the Reconnaissance Systems Department of the Hughes Aircraft Company from 1994-1996.  From 1996-2004, he was a member of the faculty in the Department of Engineering  and a senior investigator in the Center of Theoretical Studies of Physical Systems (CTSPS) at Clark Atlanta University (CAU), Atlanta, GA. Currently, he is in the Networked Sensing and Fusion branch of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL).  At ARL, Dr. Kaplan is serving as the Government Technical Area Lead for the Information Network Academic Research Center, which is a multi-institutional basic research program aimed at advancing fundamental understanding of information networks in conjunction with their interactions with social/cognitive and communication networks. Dr. Kaplan has published over 120 technical articles.  His current research interests include signal and image processing, information/data fusion, resource management, and network science.  Dr. Kaplan serves as Editor-In-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES). In addition, he also serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE AES Society, 2009-present, and on the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF) Board, 2012-present.  He served as Technical Co-Chair (with Neil Gordon) for the 2011 ISIF/IEEE International Conference on Information Fusion in Chicago, IL.  From 2004-Present, he has also been serving as the Remote Sensing Co-Organizer (with Peter Kahn) for the IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, MT. He is a three time recipient of the Clark Atlanta University Electrical Engineering Instructional Excellence Award from 1999-2001.