Professor Vishal M. Patel received the B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and applied mathematics (Hons.) and the M.S. degree in applied mathematics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA, in 2010. He is currently an A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rutgers University. Prior to joining Rutgers University, he was a member of the research faculty at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). His current research interests include signal processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition with applications in biometrics and imaging. He has received a number of awards including the 2016 ONR Young Investigator Award, the 2016 Jimmy Lin Award for Invention, A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award, the Best Paper Award at IEEE BTAS 2015, and Best Poster Awards at BTAS 2015 and 2016. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Biometrics Compendium, and serves on the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Pi Mu Epsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa.