Simon Maskell (Member, IEEE) received the M.A., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, in 1998, 1999, and 2003, respectively. Prior to 2013, he was a Technical Manager of command, control, and information systems with QinetiQ, UK. Since 2013, he has been a Professor of Autonomous Systems with the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. His research interests include Bayesian inference applied to signal processing, multitarget tracking, data fusion, and decision support with particular emphasis on the application of sequential Monte Carlo methods in challenging data science contexts.