Hugo Proença (SM’12), B.Sc. (2001), M.Sc. (2004) and Ph.D. (2007) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior (Portugal) and has been researching mainly about biometrics in non-cooperative scenarios and visual-surveillance. He was the coordinating editor of the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter and the area editor (ocular biometrics) of the IEEE Biometrics Compendium Journal. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Image and Vision Computing, IEEE Access and International Journal of Biometrics.
Also, he served as Guest Editor of special issues of the Pattern Recognition Letters, Image and Vision Computing and Signal, Image and Video Processing journals. Since 2005, he has been publishing the results of his research in premium IEEE conferences and journals, such as IEEE-TPAMI, IEEE-TIFS, IEEE-TIP, IEEE-CVPR, IEEE-ICPR and IEEE-IJCB.