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Since July 2000, Shahram Shirani has been with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University, where currently he is a professor and holds Wilson/Bell Canada chair in Data Communications. His research is focused on image and video processing, computer vision, multimedia signal compression and communications, medical image processing and hardware architectures for image/video processing. He is a senior member of IEEE and was a member of Technical Program Committee of ICIP, member of Technical Program Committee of ICASSP and a member of the organization committee of MMSP 2006. He was an Associate Editor and member of editorial board for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and an Associate Editor and member of editorial board for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. From 2016 to 2021, Dr. Shirani was the Associate Chair Undergraduate, during which he led ECE curriculum changes and programs accreditation.