Chinthaka Premachandra was born in Sri Lanka. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Mie University, Tsu, Japan in 2006 and 2008 respectively, and his Ph.D degree from the Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2011. From 2012 to 2015, Dr. Chinthaka Premachandra was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan. From 2016 to 2017, he was an assistant in the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. In 2018, he was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology. In addition, he is the manager of Image Processing and Robotic Lab at the same department. His research interests are Image Processing and Robotics. Former research includes computer vision, pattern recognition, speed up image processing, and camera based Intelligent Transportation Systems, while latter fields include terrestrial robotic systems, flying robotic systems, and integration of terrestrial robot and flying robot. Dr. Chinthaka Premachandra is author/co-author of more than 120 publications, including books, papers published in journals, magazines and conference proceedings. He received the FIT Best Paper Award and FIT Young Researchers Award from IEICE & IPSJ, Japan in 2009 and 2010 respectively. He has served many international conferences and journals as a steering committee member and an editor respectively. Dr. Chinthaka Premachandra is the founding chair of International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB).