Ruud M. Bolle was born in Voorburg, The Netherlands. He received the Bachelor's Degree in Analog Electronics and the Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, from Delft University, Delft, the Netherlands. He received the Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. In 1984, he joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson, Department of the Computer as a Research Staff Member. From 1988-2003, he was the manager of the Exploratory Computer Vision Group, which is part of Security research. Currently, his research is focused entirely on biometrics such as large-scale search systems and performance analysis of biometric systems. In general, his research interests are in video processing, multi-modal video databases, multi-modal human-computer interaction and biometrics/security. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IAPR, and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He co-authored the recently published Guide to Biometrics (Springer-Verlag).