Farook Sattar received his Technical Licentiate and PhD degrees from Lund University, Sweden. He obtained his B.Eng and M.Eng degrees from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Farook has extensive experience and expertise as an academic as well as in collaborating across multiple disciplines. His research interests include signal and image processing, pattern recognition and machine learning, intelligent systems, speech/audio processing, bioacoustics, big data, computer vision and data hiding. He has published over 130 research articles in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters.