Ahmed Bouridane received the Ingenieur d’Etat degree in electronics from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique of Algiers (ENPA), Algeria, in 1982, the M.Phil. degree in electrical engineering (VLSI design for signal processing) from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, U.K., in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (computer vision) from the University of Nottingham, U.K., in 1992. From 1992 to 1994, he worked as a Research Developer in telesurveillance and access control applications. In 1994, he joined Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, U.K., initially as a Lecturer in computer architecture and image processing and later on, he was promoted to a Reader in computer science. He was a Full Professor in image engineering and security and leads the Computational Intelligence and Visual Computing Group at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. He is currently the director of the Cybersecurity and Data Analytics Research Center at the University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE. He has authored and co-authored more than 350 publications and one research book on imaging for forensics and security. His research interests include imaging for forensics and security, biometrics, homeland security, image/video watermarking, medical engineering, cryptography, and mobile and visual computing.