Rami QahwajiRami Qahwaji is a Reader in Visual Computing at the School of Computing, Informatics and Media at Bradford University (UK). Dr. Qahwaji received a first class BSc honours degree in Electrical Engineering, followed by an MSc in Control and Computer Enineering, and a PhD in Computer Vision Systems in 2002 from the University of Bradford. He is the principal investigator 2 major EPSRC grants (EP/F022948/1) and (GR/T17588/01) and also involved in 2 small EPSRC grants. He has done consultancy work for Hines Engineering Ltd, which was funded by Yorkshire Forward. He is also involved in research activities funded by the EU COST action ES0803, where he is the work package (WP) manager for WP142, and by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) (Bern, Switzerland). He has around 85 refereed publications including 2 edited books, 8 book chapters and 25 journal papers. In addition, he has around 32 invited talks and conference presentations and 11 PhD completions. He is Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a member of various professional organisations, and has refereed research proposals for different national and international grant awarding bodies. He is also a reviewer for several international journals and conferences and he is the conference Co-Chair for the International Conference on Cyberworlds 2009 (UK) and also (CSAA09) (Egypt). Read More Read Less