Patrick J. Flynn is Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Concurrent Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and holds the Duda Family Chair in Engineering. He received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1985), the M.S. in Computer Science (1986), and the Ph.D. in Computer Science (1990) from Michigan State University, East Lansing. He has held faculty positions at Notre Dame (1990-1991, 2001-present), Washington State University (1991-1998), and Ohio State University (1998-2001). His research interests include computer vision, biometrics, and image processing. Dr. Flynn is an IEEE Fellow, an IAPR Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, a past Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. on PAMI, and a past Associate Editor of IEEE TIFS, IEEE TIP, IEEE TPAMI, Pattern Recognition, and Pattern Recognition Letters. He has received outstanding teaching awards from Washington State University and the University of Notre Dame.