Dr. Muhammad Arif completed a Bachelor of Engineering in 1990 from Ned University, Karachi, Pakistan, MS from Quid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan in 1993, and Ph.D. in System Information Sciences from Tohoku University, Japan in 1999. He completed a two-year postdoc fellowship at the Tohoku University from 2000 to 2003 in intelligent systems. Currently, Dr. Arif works as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information systems, Umm Alqura University, Saudi Arabia. He has published more than 100 papers in various journals and conference proceedings. His research interests are artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, evolutionary computing, biometrics, and biomedical signal and image processing.