Dr. MONCEF GABBOUJ received his BS degree in electrical engineering in 1985 from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, and his MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1986 and 1989, respectively.

Dr. Gabbouj is currently a Professor at the Department of Signal Processing at Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland. He was Head of the Department during 2002-2007. Dr. Gabbouj was on sabbatical leave at the American University of Sharjah, UAE in 2007-2008. Dr. Gabbouj was Senior Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland during 2007-2008 and 1997-1998. In 2007-2008, he was visiting professor at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. Dr. Gabbouj is the co-founder and past CEO of SuviSoft Oy Ltd. From 1995 to 1998 he was a professor with the Department of Information Technology of Pori School of Technology and Economics. From 1994 to 1995 he was an Associate Professor with the Signal Processing Laboratory of Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland. From 1990 to 1993 he was a senior research scientist with the Research Institute for Information Technology, Tampere, Finland. His research interests include multimedia content-based analysis, indexing and retrieval; nonlinear signal and image processing and analysis; and video processing, coding and communications.

Dr. Gabbouj is a Honorary Guest Professor of Jilin University, China (2005-2010). Dr. Gabbouj served as Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2004-2005, and Past-Chairman of the IEEE-EURASIP NSIP (Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing) Board. He was chairman of the Algorithm Group of the EC COST 211quat. He served as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and was guest editor of Multimedia Tools and Applications, the European journal Applied Signal Processing. He is the past chairman of the IEEE Finland Section, the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Technical Committee on Digital Signal Processing, and the IEEE SP/CAS Finland Chapter. He was also Chairman of CBMI 2005, WIAMIS 2001 and the TPC Chair of ISCCSP 2006 and 2004, CBMI 2003, EUSIPCO 2000, NORSIG 1996 and the DSP track chair of the 1996 IEEE ISCAS. He is also member of EURASIP Advisory Board and past member of AdCom. He also served as Publication Chair and Publicity Chair of IEEE ICIP 2005 and IEEE ICASSP 2006, respectively.

Dr. Gabbouj was the Director of the International University Programs in Information Technology (1991-2007) and vice member of the Council of the Department of Information Technology at Tampere University of Technology. He is also the Vice-Director of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence SPAG, Secretary of the International Advisory Board of Tampere International Center of Signal Processing, TICSP, and member of the Board of the Digital Media Institute. He served as Tutoring Professor for Nokia Mobile Phones Leading Science Program (2005-2007 and 1998-2001). He is a member of IEEE SP and CAS societies.

Dr. Gabbouj was the recipient of the 2005 Nokia Foundation Recognition Award and co-recipient of the Myril B. Reed Best Paper Award from the 32nd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems and co-recipient of the NORSIG 94 Best Paper Award from the 1994 Nordic Signal Processing Symposium. He is co-author of nearly 400 publications.