Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi received the B.Sc. (1995) and M.Sc.(1997) from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and the Ph.D. (2002) from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, all in Electrical Engineering. From 2002 to 2009, he was a faculty member with the School of Computing, Queen’s University. He then joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he is a Canada Research Chair, Tier II, in Biomedical Engineering, and an Associate Professor, with Associate Membership to the Department of Urologic Sciences. Dr. Abolmaesumi is internationally recognized and has received numerous awards for his pioneering developments in ultrasound image processing, image registration and image-guided interventions. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, a Board Member of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery – ISCAS, and serves on the Program Committees of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference and the International Conference on Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions.