Syed MahbuburSyed Mahbubur Rahman is currently a Professor at the Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA. He worked for several other institutions around the world, including NDSU in USA (1999), Monash University in Australia (1993-98), Bangladesh University ofEngineering and Technology (BUET, 1982-92), and Ganz Electric Works in Budapest (1980-82). He was the head of the department of Computer Science and Engineering at BUET from 1986 to 1992. He is co-chairing and is involved as a program/organizing member in a number of international conferences. He obtained his doctoral degree from Budapest Technical University in 1980. He supervised more than 30 research projects leading to mastersí and PhD degrees. His research interests include electronic commerce systems, multimedia computing and communications, image processing and retrieval, computational intelligence, pattern recognition, distributed processing, and security. He has published 100+ research papers in his areas of interest. He has published four edited books on e-commerce, internet commerce, software agents, multimedia, and networking. He also edited the special issue of IEEE Multimedia on distance education. Read More Read Less