Ayatullah Faruk Mollah, PhD(Engg) is an Assistant Professor and former Head (Officiating) of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aliah University, India. He has completed his doctoral study from Jadavpur University, India. He is a senior member of IEEE, USA and Life Member of Indian Unit of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He was a Senior Software Engineer at Atrenta (I) Pvt. Ltd. Noida, India. He has also worked with ScanBiz Mobile Solutions, New York, USA. He was awarded prestigious European Union Erusmus Mundus cLink Fellowship, University Grants Commission (UGC) Research Fellowship for Meritorious Students in Science, and Postdoctoral Fellowship from University of Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Mollah is actively engaged in research in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, image and video analysis, bioinformatics, etc. He is currently guiding a number of PhD students in frontier areas of image analysis and bioinformatics. So far, he has authored nearly hundred articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Mollah is also a Co-Principal Investigator of the Multi-script project funded by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.