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Palaiahnakote Shivakumara received B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Sc Technology by research and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India in  1995, 1999, 2001 and 2005, all in computer science. Currently, he is working as a Associate Professor in the Department of Computer System and Technology, University of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  He worked as a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, Singapore from 2005-2007 and 2008-2013. Besides, he worked as Research Consultant at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for the period of one year from 2007-2008. Based on his work, he has published more than 300 research papers in national, international conferences and journals. He has been served as Ediot-in-Chief for Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA), BonViewPress, Singapore.  He has been serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Trnsactions on Multimedia (TMM), Pattern Recognition  (PR), International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), CAAI-Transactions on Intelligence in Technology, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Springer-Nature of Computer Science (SNCS), Malaysian Journal of Computer Science (MJCS). Further, he was the recipient of a prestigious “Dynamic Indian of the Millennium” award by KG foundation, India for his contributions to computer science field. He won “Top Reviewer” award from Pattern Recognition Letters. He has several international collaborators, namely, Nanjing University, China, Hohai University, China, Shantou University, China, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, University of Essex, UK, Assiut University, Egypt, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has been serving as chairs at different levels for International Conference, namely, ICDAR, DAS, ICFHR, ACPR, ECCV, ACCV, ICCV, CVPR, ACMMM, ICFHR, ICPR etc. His area of research includes video text understanding, document analysis, image processing, personality traits identification and forged text detection related.