Dr. Ferda Ofli is a senior scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute. Before joining QCRI, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA from 2010 to 2014. He received the BSc degrees both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Engineering, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. His research interests cover computer vision, machine learning, and multimedia signal processing. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM with over 50 publications in top-tier conferences and journals, and has won several best paper awards.