Mahmoud HassaballahM. Hassaballah was born in 1974, Qena, Egypt. He received his B.Sc. degree in mathematics in 1997 and his M.Sc. degree in computer science in 2003, both from South Valley University, Egypt, and his Doctor of Engineering (D. Eng.) in computer science rom Ehime University, Japan in 2011. He was a visiting scholar with the Department of Computer & Communication Science, Wakayama University, Japan in 2013 and GREAH laboratory, Le Havre Normandie University, France in 2019. He is currently an associate professor of computer science at the Faculty of Computers and Information, South Valley University, Egypt. He served as a reviewer for several Journals such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, Egyptian Informatics Journal, IET Image Processing, IET Computer Vision, IET Biometrics, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, The Computer Journal, Journal of Electronic Imaging, and Optical Engineering. He has published 5 books and over 50 research papers in refereed international journals and conferences. His research interests include feature extraction, object detection/recognition, artificial intelligence, biometrics, image processing, computer vision, machine learning, and data hiding. Read More Read Less