Dr. Mubarak Shah received his B. E. degree in 1979 in Electronics from Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Karachi , Pakistan with the highest grades in the whole University, and was awarded a five year Quaid-e-Azam (Father of Nation) scholarship for his Ph.D. He spent 1980 at Philips International Institute of Technology, Eindhoven , The Netherlands, where he completed E.D.E. diploma. Dr. Shah received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University , Detroit , Michigan , respectively in 1982 and 1986. Since 1986 he has been with the University of Central Florida , where he is currently Agere Chair Professor of Computer Science, and the director of Computer Vision lab. 

Dr. Shah is a fellow of IEEE, was an IEEE Distiguished Visitor Speaker, and is often invited to present seminars, tutorials and invited talks all over the world. He received the Harris Corporation Engineering Acheivment Award in 1999, the IEEE Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 1997, TOKTEN Awards from United Nations Development Program in 1995, 1997, and 2000, Teaching Incentive Award in 1995 and 2003, Research Incentive Award in 2003, Millionaires' Club Award in 2005, and PEGASUS Professor Award in 2006. He is an editor of international book series on “Video Computing”; editor in chief of Machine Vision and Applications journal, area editor of Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, and an associate editor of Pattern Recognition journal. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on PAMI, and a guest editor of the special issue of International Journal of Computer Vision on Video Computing.