Dr. Dengsheng Zhang is Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, Information Technology and Physical Sciences at Federation University Australia and a Guest Professor of Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China. He is on the list of Top 2% Scientists in the World ranked by Stanford University. Dr Zhang was the Textbook & Academic Authors Association’s winner of their 2020 Most Promising New Textbook Award, with the judges noting: ＂Fundamentals of Image Data Mining provides excellent coverage of current algorithms and techniques in image analysis. It does this using a progression of essential and novel image processing tools that give students an in-depth understanding of how the tools fit together and how to apply them to problems.＂