Nezamoddin N. Kachouie received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He was also appointed a Research Fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School. He is now an Associate Professor at the College of Engineering and Science, Florida Institute of Technology. His research interest lies at the interface of statistical modeling, machine learning, pattern recognition, digital signal and image processing, biostatistics, and computer vision with applications to climate change, cancer research, and public health.