Mehmet Celenk received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Istanbul Technical University, in 1974 and 1976, both in electrical and communications engineering, and his Ph.D. degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and computer science, in 1983. He joined Ohio University in 1985, where he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests include image and video processing, computer vision, multimedia, data fusion, pattern recognition, and biomedical engineering. He has published over 200 articles in these fields. He supervised two visiting scholars, and 31 M.S./Ph.D. theses. Dr. Celenk was the recipient of the 1988 Fritz & Dolores Russ Research Award of the College of Engineering and Technology of Ohio University.He was awarded the Avionics Academic Challenge Faculty Fellowship at Ohio University from 1988 to 1992. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans since 2005, a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Recent Patents on Signal Processing, since 2008.