Professor Tapamo  received his PhD degree  from the University of Rouen. He is Full Professor of computer engineering in  the School of Engineering. His  research interests include visual surface characterization, image processing, computer vision, machine learning, biometrics, activity recognition with a particular emphasis on intelligent monitoring, smart surveillance, security, medicine, and environmental monitoring applications. 

He is Chair of the Image Processing, Computer Vison and Data Mining Research Group. He is also the member of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the ACM. He is  a regular reviewer of several Scientific journals, including  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Transactions  on Intelligent Transportation Systems.