Prof. Jules-Raymond Tapamo is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering with the School of Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He received his PhD degree from the University of Rouen. His research interests include image processing, computer vision, machine learning, biometrics, intelligent monitoring, activity recognition, surface characterization, and formal methods. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and ACM.