Prof. Dr. Sabah Jassim received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mathematics from Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq, and received a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of Wales, Swansea, U.K. His academic career includes various lecturing posts at several U.K. and international institutions, including the University of Wales, Swansea; City University, London; De Montfort University (formerly Leicester Polytechnic); and Fachhochschule Wedel, Germany. In 1989, he joined the University of Buckingham, Buckingham, U.K., where he is currently a Professor of Mathematics and the Head of the Applied Computing Department. His research interests include multimodal and multistream biometric authentication, revocable biometric cryptosystems, security of multimedia objects, environment-aware adaptive face recognition, computational geometry and graph algorithms, bioinformatics and pathway analysis, wavelet-based image/video processing/analysis, compression and indexing, and visual speech/word recognition. Prof. Dr. Jassim is a Joint Chair of an SPIE conference on defence and security, a member of the technical committees for several international conferences, and a frequent reviewer of journal articles. He is actively involved in research collaborations with European universities and research institutes on EU-funded projects and has been involved in EU framework projects, including FP6 SecurePhone and BroadWan.
