Farag Elnagahy. He was born at Cairo in 1967. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electronic engineering from Menoufia University, Faculty of electronic engineering, Egypt, in 1990, and the M.Sc. degree in Systems & Computers Engineering from, Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo, Egypt, in 1998, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and informatics from Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, 2004. He is an Associate Professor with the Astronomy Department, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Cairo, Egypt. His research interests involve Image processing, image coding, pattern matching, Pattern recognition, Neural networks.