Shahrel Azmin Suandi received a B.Eng. in electronic engineering, as well as a M.Eng. and a D.Eng. in information science, from the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1995, 2003, and 2006, respectively. He is currently a professor (dean) with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia. At the USM, he serves as the coordinator of the Intelligent Biometric Group, where he is the founder of a biometric product, FaceBARS. Prior to joining the university, he was an engineer with Sony Video (M) Sdn. Bhd. and Technology Park Malaysia Corporation Sdn. Bhd. for almost six years. His current research interests include face-based biometrics, real-time object detection and tracking, and pattern classification. He has served as a reviewer for several international conferences and journals, including IET Biometrics, IET Computer Vision, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Neural Computing and Applications, the Journal of Electronic Imaging, the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and IEEE ACCESS.