Ashek Ahmmed (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc.Eng. degree (Hons.) in computer science and engineering from the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2006, the M.Sc.Eng. degree in computer engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2015. He has worked as a video compression engineer (Nokia Technologies, Finland), post-doctoral research associate (University of New South Wales and Charles Sturt University, Australia). His current research interests include video compression, motion modeling, and image representation.