Dr. Muhammad Shahid Farid received the B.S., M.Sc., and M.Phil. degrees in computer science from the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Turin, Turin, Italy. He worked as a Postdoc researcher for a short term at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Currently, Dr. Farid is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. He worked on 3D television technology, particularly on efficient representation and and coding of multiview videos, novel view synthesis techniques, and quality assessment of 3D videos. His research interests also include information fusion, biometrics, image segmentation, and medical image analysis. He has more than 60 publications to his name, including 40 journal articles, 22 international peer-reviewed conference papers, and 2 international patents. He has won numerous research grants, including two competitive and prestigious HEC NRPU research grants---one from the Punjab Agricultural Research Board (PARB), Pakistan. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee for several conferences, and Area Chair in the prestigious ACM SIGMM, and ACM IMX. He is an Area Editor in PLOS One and Mathematical Problems in Engineering journals and also served as a reviewer in numerous journals. He is an HEC Pakistan approved PhD supervisor. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.