Khaled Assaleh is currently the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Ajman University. From 2002 through 2017, he was with the American University of Sharjah (AUS) as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies. Prior to joining AUS, Khaled had a 9-year R&D career in the Telecom Industry in the USA with Rutgers, Motorola and Rockwell/Skyworks. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 1993; a Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Monmouth University, New Jersey in 1990; and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan in 1988. He holds 11 US patents and has published over 120 articles in signal/image processing and pattern recognition and their applications. He has served on organization committees of several international conferences including ICIP, ISSPA, ICCSPA, MECBME and ISMA. He has also served as a guest editor for several special issues of journals. Dr. Assaleh is a senior member of the IEEE. His research interests include bio-signal processing, biometrics, speech and image processing, and pattern recognition.