Prof. Saïd MAHMOUDI graduated from the Computer Science Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Oran, Algeria. He received his MS in Computer Science from the LIFL Laboratory, University of Lille1, France, in 1999. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Lille 1 in December 2003. Between 2003 and 2005, he was an Associate Lecturer at the University of Lille 3, France. Since September 2005, he has been an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Mons, Belgium. His research interests include the Internet of Things, image processing, computer-aided medical diagnosis, 2D and 3D retrieval, and indexing and annotation.