Dr. Ferda Ofli is a senior scientist in Qatar Computing Research Institute's Social Computing group. Before joining QCRI, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Teleimmersion Lab working with Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA from 2010 to 2014. He received the BSc degrees both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Engineering, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. Dr. Ofli pursued his PhD work in the Multimedia, Vision and Graphics Laboratory (MVGL) at Koc University under the supervision of Prof. Engin Erzin, Prof. Yucel Yemez and Prof. Murat Tekalp. Dr. Ofli's research interests cover computer vision, machine learning, and multimedia signal processing. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM with over 50 publications in top-tier conferences and journals including PAMI, CVPR, WACV, TMM, JBHI, and JVCI. He won the ISCRAM Best Insight Paper and Best Paper Runner-up Awards in 2019, the ISCRAM Best Paper Runner-up Award in 2017, Elsevier JVCI Best Paper Award in 2015, and IEEE SIU Best Student Paper Award in 2011. He also received the Graduate Studies Excellence Award in 2010 for outstanding academic achievement at Koc University.