Maruf Monwar is a PhD student of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. in Computer Science & Technology at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh and M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Northern BC, Canada. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, and currently is on study leave. His primary research interests include biometric fusion, expression recognition and biological data processing. He is one of the recipients of the prestigious inaugural NSERC Vanier CGS Scholarship. He served as a guest editor of the International Journal of Biometrics, published by Indersciences.