In 2003 he completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Beg is the Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Option Program at SFU and a Co-Director of the Medical Image Analysis Laboratory at SFU. Dr. Beg's research interests include: Computational anatomy, Non-rigid registration of medical images, Shape analysis, Statistical atlas of anatomical shapes and parallel computing applications to medical image computing.