Božidar Potočnik was born in Maribor, Slovenia in 1972. He received B.S., M.S., and D.S. degrees in computer science from the University of Maribor in 1995, 1998, and 2000, respectively. Since 2013, he has been an associate professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Slovenia. He is the author of a book and more than 30 scientific peer-reviewed journal articles. His research interests include digital image and image sequence processing, deep learning, pattern recognition, and biomedicine. He has been an IEEE member since 1995.