Syed 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 of Engineering 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.