Paramate Horkaew received the B.Eng. (Hons.) in telecommunication engineering (1st) from the King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Ladkrabang, Thailand, in 1999, and the Ph.D. in computer science from the Imperial College London, U.K., in 2004. His Ph.D. thesis focused on an efficient and automatic method for constructing the optimal statistical deformable model for complex topological shapes with application to cardiovascular imaging. He is currently an associate professor at the School of Computer Engineering, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand.