Ferdous Sohel received PhD degree from Monash University, Australia. He is currently a Professor in Information Technology at Murdoch University, Australia. Prior to joining Murdoch University in 2015, he was a Research Assistant Professor/Research Fellow at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia. His research interests include artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer vision, digital agriculture, image processing, pattern recognition, scene understanding, and video coding. Prof Sohel is a recipient of several research grants worth more than $4.5million. Notably, he is a recipient of the prestigious Discovery Project and Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) funded by the Australian Research Council. He is a recipient of the Learning and Teaching grant on Work Integrated Learning and a Community grant for Invasive Ants detection and tracking from Australia's national competitive pools.

He has also won two WA State Govt. funded competitive grants on shark hazard mitigation and digital pathology to improve cancer diagnosis. He is a recipient of the VC's Early Career Investigators award (UWA) and the best PhD thesis medal from Monash University. He has won several best paper awards. He is serving IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Signal Processing Letters as an Associate Editor. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Australian Computer Society and a senior member of the IEEE.