Ali Kashif Bashir is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Mathematics of Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, an Adjunct Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad (NUST), Pakistan, an Honorary Professor at the School of Information and Communication Engineering of the University of Electronics Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and a Chief Advisor at the Visual Intelligence Research Center, UESTC, China. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), United States and a distinguished speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States.