Hasan F. Ates received his PhD degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University in 2004. He was a Research Associate at Sabanci University, between 2004 and 2005. He held positions of Assistant, Associate and Full Professorship at Isik University between 2005 and 2018. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Medipol University, which he joined in September 2018. He is the author/co-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of image/video processing/coding and computer vision.