Achamyeleh Debela is a professor of art, and Director of the Computing Center for the Arts in North Carolina Central University. Debela is a digital artist/painter with numerous national and international exhibitions. He received his BA in Fine Arts at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria; a Master of Arts in Musicology and Art History from Morgan State University; a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the Hofberger Graduate School of Painting, at the Maryland Institute College of Arts both in Baltimore, Maryland, and his PHD studies in Computer Graphics and Art Education at the Computing Center for the Arts and Design, The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. Currently Debela chairs the Computer Graphics at HBCU's and Minority Institutions Committee of the Association of American Machinery - Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, based at North Carolina Central University. He is also Chair, African Chapter of the Inter Society for Electronic Arts.