received the Bachelor degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the Faculte des Sciences, Monastir, Tunisia, in 2000 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. From 2001 to 2007, he was a graduate research associate with Bell Canada Laboratories and the research center MOIVRE (MOdElisationen Imagerie, Vision et REseaux de neurones). Presently, he is Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science, within the Faculty of Science of the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and research scientist and coordinator in the Ecole de Technologie Superieure, University du Quebec and the Company CieGenetec Inc.(World Leader in LPR and Video Surveillance and Access Control Systems), Montreal, Canada. Prior to that, he was Visiting Fellow Research Scientist at the Canadian Space agency, and Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Computer Science, within the Faculty of Science of the University of Windsor. In 2008, he was awarded a fellowship (of excellence) for postdoctoral research from the granting agency “Fonds quebecois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies”, his Ph.D. was evaluated and ranked third Ph.D. in Quebec for 2007 by the committee of Information Technology and Communications. His research interests include image processing, image retrieval, computer vision, data mining, machine learning and pattern recognition.
