Sudeep Sarkar is a Distinguished University Professor and Interim Dean of the BelliniCollege of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing at the University of South Florida. He has more than 35 years of experience conducting and directing fundamental research in computer vision, predictive learning, biometrics, and artificial intelligence. His use-inspired contributions are in systems to recognize persons from the way they walk (gait biometrics), automated recognition of actions, activities, and events in the video, economic activity from satellite images, and extracting precise medically relevant information from medical images. He is a Distinguished Member of the ACM, member of the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida, and Fellows of AAAS, NAI, IEEE, IAPR, and AIMBE. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters, a top-10 journal in computer vision and pattern recognition. He was the President of the IEEE Biometrics Council. Dr. Sarkar is an outstanding educator, having won the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Teaching Incentive Program Award at USF. He has directed 22 Doctoral and 23 Master's students. The Florida Education Fund awarded him the William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award.