Professor Bowyer's research interests touch on many aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition, including biometrics, data mining, object recognition and medical image analysis. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Golden Core member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a past EIC of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and the IEEE Biometrics Compendium. He was General Chair of the 2011 International Joint Conference on Biometrics, Program Chair of the 2011 Automated Face and Gesture Recognition conference, and a founding General Chair of the IEEE Biometrics Theory Applications and Systems conference series