He is the co-founder/director of the Medical Image Analysis Lab at SFU, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Senior member of ACM. He was a visiting professor at INRIA and École Central Paris, France (2010-2011). Before joining SFU as an Assistant Professor (2003), he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children (2001-2003). He completed his PhD (2001), Masters (with distinction) (1997) and Bachelors (1995) degrees at the University of Toronto, Chalmers University of Technology, and the University of Jordan. His primary research interests are in medical image analysis and computational intelligence for biomedicine. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and about 100 other publications including open science journals, book chapters, abstracts, and technical reports.