Sungbum Pan received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from Sogang University, South Korea, in 1991, 1995, and 1999, respectively. He was a team leader with the Biometric Technology Research Team, ETRI, from 1999 to 2005. He is currently a professor at Chosun University. His current research interests are biometrics, security, and VLSI architectures for real-time image processing.