Dr. Michael Lewis is currently working as Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and Director of Robert Wood Johnson Autism Center, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (formerly University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson) Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ. He has completed his Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Previously he was appointed as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor of Psychology, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, Summer Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at University of Strathclyde, Scotland, Adjunct Professor in Developmental Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York, NY, Adjunct Professor at University of Pennsylvania, Director at Infant Laboratory, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, Clinical Professor of Pediatric Psychology, Columbia University, and Visiting Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York, Visiting Professor at Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. He is professional member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Pediatric Society, American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, Eastern Psychological Association, New York Academy of Science, Society for Behavioral Pediatrics, and Society for Research in Child Development. Dr. Lewis has written and edited over 63 books and monograph many of which have been translated into other languages, including German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Danish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Dr. Lewis has also authored Language Interaction Intervention Program: A Workshop Curriculum for Parent Training (1991), as well as two research monographs, A Developmental Study of Information Processing within the First Three Years of Life: Response Decrement to a Redundant Signal (1969), and The Determinants of Childrens Responses to Separation (1977). Additionally, he has had published over 529 articles and chapters in professional journals and scholarly texts. Dr. Lewis received the 2009 Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the American Psychological Association. In 2012, The New York Zero-to-Three Network honored Dr. Lewis with the Hedi Levenback Pioneer award for his pioneering research in child development. In 1995, he was ranked number 1 by a University of Notre Dame study in terms of the impact of scientists who are most referenced and productive in the field of developmental sciences, and he is currently in the top 1.5% of scientists referenced in the Social Science Index. Dr. Lewis has delivered numerous honorary lectures, including the Pickering Lecture, Hamilton University, Canada; Masters Lecture at the American Psychological Association, 50th Anniversary Address at the Eastern Psychological Association, 20th Anniversary William A. Schonfeld Address, Plenary Speaker at the American Academy of Pediatrics, Westmead Lecture in Sydney, Australia, Harris Lecture at the University of Chicago, National Child Research Foundation Visiting Lecture, Paediatric Society of New Zealand; Keynote Speaker, First International Conference on Developmental Disabilities in Beit Issie Shapiro, Israel, and the Theodore D. Tjossem Memorial Lecture and Edwards Lectures at the University of Washington, Seattle.