Biography

Tamer Shanableh is a senior member of the IEEE and a professional engineer. Was born in Scotland, UK. He studied at the University of Essex where he received his Ph.D. in electronic systems engineering in 2002 and his MSc in software engineering in 1998.
He then worked as a senior research officer at the University of Essex for three years, during which, he collaborated with BTexact on inventing video transcoders. He then joined Motorola UK Research Labs and contributed to establishing a new profile within the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 known as the Error Resilient Simple Scalable Profile. He joined the American University of Sharjah in 2002 and is currently a professor of computer science. During the summer breaks, Dr. Shanableh worked as a visiting professor at Motorola Labs in five different years. He spent his sabbatical leave as a visiting academic at the Multimedia and Computer Vision and Lab at Queen Mary, University of London, U.K. Dr. Shanableh authored more than 80 publications and has six patents. His research interests include digital video processing and machine learning.