Instructor Biography

Bio: Faisal Shafait is working as an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. Previously, he held an Assistant Professor position at the School of Computer Science & Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia. He has worked for a number of years as a Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany and a visiting researcher at Google, California. He received his Ph.D. in computer engineering with the highest distinction from TU Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2008. His research interests include machine learning and computer vision with a special emphasis on applications in document image analysis and recognition. He has co-authored over 100 publications in international peer-reviewed conferences and journals in this area. His publications has received over 2,000 citations to date. He is an Editorial Board member of the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), and a Program Committee member of leading document analysis conferences including ICDAR, DAS, and ICFHR. He is also serving on the Leadership Board of IAPR’s Technical Committee on Computational Forensics (TC-6).