Dr. M. Sami Zitouni is an Assistant Professor at the University of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015 and 2019, respectively, from Khalifa University (KU), Abu Dhabi, UAE. He conducted his studies with the KU Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS) and the Visual Signal Analysis and Processing Center (VSAP) on topics including video processing and analysis, crowd modeling, detection and tracking, social and cognitive behavior analysis, and visual scene understanding. Before joining the University of Dubai as an Assistant Professor, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Biomedical Engineering at KU as part of KU–Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KU-KAIST) Joint Research Center where he worked on physiological signals analysis, affective state recognition, mental health monitoring, and emotionally aware human-machine interaction. Currently, he is in charge of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) Lab. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning applications, remote sensing, earth observation, affective computing, health informatics, computer vision, and embedded systems.