Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb
Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb received his Ph.D. in computer science from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1993. He is a professor in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Miami, where his research focuses on 3D face recognition, dental biometrics, ear biometrics, visual tracking, and human activity recognition. Prior to joining the University of Miami, from 1993 to 2000, he worked at Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY. At Philips Research, he was a Principal Member of Research Staff and a Project Leader, where he led several projects in image processing, and content-based multimedia retrieval. He holds 20 US patents and published over 80 journal and conference papers in the areas of image processing, computer vision, and content based retrieval. He is a senior member of IEEE and an associate editor for the Pattern Recognition journal.