Serestina Viriri is a full professor of Computer Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the current HoD of Computer Science in the School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. Prof Viriri has been in academia for more than 20 years. His main research areas include Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and other Image Processing related fields, such as biometrics, medical imaging, and nuclear medicine. He has published extensively in several Computer Vision-related accredited journals and international and national conference proceedings. Prof. Viriri serves as a reviewer for several Computer Vision-related journals. He has also served on program committees for numerous international and national conferences. He has supervised to completion 11 Ph.D. and 14 M.Sc. students to date. Prof Viriri is an NRF rated researcher. Prof Viriri holds B.Sc. (Mathematics & Computer Science), M.Sc. (Computer Science), and Ph.D. (Computer Science).