Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn,New York

Nasir Memon is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Polytechnic University, New York. He received his B.E. in Chemical Engineering and M.Sc. in Mathematics from the Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, India and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska, in Computer Science. He has held an assistant professor position at Arkansas State University and at Northern Illinois University. He was also a visiting faculty at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California in 1997-98. His research interests include Data Compression, Computer and Network Security, Multimedia Data Security and Multimedia Communications.