Al Bovik holds the Cockrell Family Endowed Regents Chair in Engineering at UT Austin, where he is Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE). He is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Neuroscience. He has published more than 800 technical articles in these areas and holds several U.S. patents. His publications have been cited more than 75,000 times in the literature, his current H-index is above 100, and he is listed as a Highly-Cited Researcher by Thompson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics. His several books include the companion volumes The Essential Guides to Image and Video Processing (Academic Press, 2009).