His research interests include design and analysis of visual information systems, content-based image and audio indexing and retrieval, and multimedia synchronization in an object-oriented database. He has a BS in computer engineering from the National Institute of Computer Science, Algeria; an MSc in computer science from Pierre Mendes France University, France; and a PhD in computer science from Claude Bernard University, France. He is an IEEE member. He is also on the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications editorial board.