He is currently with the EURECOM, Multimedia Communications dept. as a Professor
He teaches Image and Video Processing and Coding, and Imaging for Security Applications (Watermarking, Steganography, Biometrics, Video surveillance and Forensics)
He was awarded the SEE 2010 Blondel Medal for his outstanding work in biometrics and digital watermarking.
In July 2011, he was awarded a Best Presentation Award (with Antitza Dantcheva) for the article "Female facial aesthetics based on soft biometrics and photo-quality"
He is co-author (with F. Perronin and Prof. K. Rose, UC Santa Barbara) of a paper that received the IEEE ICIP 2003 Best Student Paper Award « A probabilistic model of face mapping with local transformations and its application to person recognition »