Ahmed Bouridane

Ahmed Bouridane (Senior Member, IEEE) received the “Ingenieur d’Etat” degree in electronics from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique of Algiers (ENPA), Algeria, in 1982, the M.Phil. degree in electrical engineering (VLSI design for signal processing) from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (computer vision) from the University of Nottingham, U.K., in 1992. From 1992 to 1994, he was a research developer in telesurveillance and access control applications. In 1994, he joined Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, U.K., initially as a Lecturer in computer architecture and image processing and later on he was promoted to a Reader in computer science. In 2009, he joined Northumbria University, Newcastle, leading the Computational Intelligence and Visual Computing Laboratory. He is currently a Professor in machine intelligence and the Director of the Cybersecurity and Data Analytics Research Center, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. His research interests include machine learning with applications to imaging for forensics and security, quantitative pathology and bi-medical engineering, homeland security, and video analytics. He has authored and coauthored more than 350 publications and three research books on imaging for forensics and security and biometric security and privacy.