Professor Amine NAIT-ALI was born in 1972. He received in a M.sc degree in Electrical Engineering " Ingénieur d’état en électronique," in 1994 at the university USTO (Oran), then a DEA degree “Diplôme des Etudes Approfondies” in Signal Processing and Automatic from the University Paris XI (1995). In 1998, he received a Ph.D. degree in Biosignal processing and the “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” (HDR) from the University Paris XII, in 2007. He has been an Associate Professor and is currently a Professor at the same university. His research interests are focused on Biosignal processing, biometrics, optimization, modeling, and medical signal and image compression. He has co-authored a number of international peer-reviewed papers and edited and co-edited five books in the biomedical and biometrics field (Springer, ISTE-Wiley and Hermes). He has organized and/or run several national, European, and international workshops and has also served as a reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering, the EURASIP journal on advances in Signal Processing, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control et Digital Signal Processing. He is also a member of IEEE, SFGBM, GDR ISIS and STIC-Santé. Prof. Amine NAIT-ALI is the representative of the IEEE Biomedical Engineering Society in the IEEE Biometric Council.