Dr. Arnon Amir is a research staff member with the Interaction Sciences group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He received his B.Sc. Magna Cum Laude in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ben Gurion University, Israel, in 1989, and his M.Sc. (1992) and D.Sc. (1997) in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute Of Technology. His work covers multiple aspects of computer vision and multimedia information retrieval, from data analysis, image and video segmentation, speech indexing and multimodal search, to efficient video browsing, visualization and summarization. In another part of his work he develops new systems for eye detection, eye contact, calibration-free eye gaze tracking and point of regard computation, and their applications in human computer interaction. Dr. Amir has authored and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed technical papers, holds 11 US patents, and was awarded several awards including the 1997/8 Rothschild Fellowship and a 2005 IBM Research Achievement Award. He was program co-chair at the Forth ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications ETRA-2006 and the fifth one (ETRA-2008), and served on many program committees of major international conferences. He is a Senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM. At his leisure he is a marathon runner and coach at San Jose Fit.