Ibrahima Faye (Senior Member, IEEE) received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Toulouse and his MS in Engineering of Medical and Biotechnological Data from École Centrale Paris. He is currently an Associate Professor at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Seri Iskandar, Malaysia. He is attached to the Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences and the Centre for Intelligent Signal and Imaging Research (CISIR), a National Centre of Excellence. His research interests include machine learning, mathematics, signal and image processing, and the science of learning. He has published over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences and holds two patents in image processing. He is currently the Vice Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), Malaysia.