He received his PhD (2010) in Computer Science from the Queen Mary University of London. From Dec. 2010 – Mar. 2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University of London and Vision Semantics Limited. His research interests include computer vision and pattern recognition, with focus on face analysis, deep learning, and visual surveillance. He serves as an Associate Editor of IET Computer Vision Journal, a Guest Editor of the Computer Vision and Image Understanding, and International Journal of Computer Vision. He will serve as an Area Chair of ECCV 2018 and BMVC 2018. He is a senior member of IEEE.