Ahmed Drissi el maliani is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Rabat, Mohammed V University, Morocco where he is affiliated with the LRIT laboratory. He received a Ph. D. degree in engineering sciences from the same University. This latter concerned stochastic modeling of natural images with applications in Content-based texture retrieval and classification. He has co-authored many journal articles, conference publications, and book chapters. His current research mainly focuses on Information Geometry, Machine Learning, and Medical image analysis, especially in the field of Neuroscience. Pr. Drissi el maliani is a member of numerous national and international conference committees and serves as a reviewer of well-known journals in the field. He is also a member and vice president of the Moroccan Mobile Computing and Intelligent Embedded-Systems Society (Mobitic).