Ismail M. Shahin was born in Hebron, Palestine, on June 30, 1966. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1992, 1994 and 1998, respectively, from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, U.S.A. From 1998 to 1999, he was a visiting instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Computer Science Department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Since 1999, he is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. His research interests include speech processing, speech recognition, speaker recognition under the neutral, stressful and emotional talking conditions, emotion and talking condition recognition, gender recognition using voice and accent recognition. He has 30 journal and conference publications. He has remarkable contribution in organizing many conferences, symposiums and workshops.
