Chair

Dr. Svetlana N. Yanushkevich (syanshk@ucalgary.ca)

Svetlana Yanushkevich, IEEE Senior Member, received her Dr.Tech. Sciences (Dr. Habilitated) degree from the Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, in 1999. She is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is directing the Biometric Technologies Laboratory (www.ucalgary.ca/btlab) and conducting research in the area of biometric-based authentication technologies, biometric system and device design for security applications, as well as for biomedical and health-care applications.


Vice-Chair

Dr. Ruggero Donida Labati (ruggero.donida@unimi.it)

Ruggero Donida Labati received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, in 2006, 2008, and 2013 respectively. From 2015 he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. His research interests include: biometrics, signal and image processing, computational intelligence, and industrial applications. Original results have been published in more than 40 papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters.


Committee Members

Dr. Yingzi (Eliza) Du (yidu@iupui.edu)

Yingzi (Eliza) Du is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She received Ph.D. from Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County in Electrical Engineering in 2003, and the MS and BS in electrical engineering from Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecom in 1999 and 1996 respectively. From 2003 to 2005 she worked at the U.S. Naval Academy as an Assistant Research Professor. She joined IUPUI in 2005. Her research interests are in biometrics, digital image processing, pattern recognition, video surveillance, and their applications. Her research has been funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), National Security Agency (NSA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Indiana Department of Transportation. She received the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2007 for her work in iris recognition. She is a senior member of IEEE, a member of SPIE, a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi honor societies.


Dr. Dmitry Gorodnichy (dmitry.gorodnichy@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca)

Dmitry Gorodnichy received PhD in Computing Science the University of Alberta in 2000, PhD in Mathematics from Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Mathematics, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1997, and MSc in Information Technology from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, 1994. He is a founder of the Video Recognition Systems project of the National Research Council of Canada's Institute of Information Technologies, which he was leading for seven years, presently a research scientist at the Canadian Border Services Agency working with Biometric and Surveillance Technologies. He is the author of over sixty papers in the area Pattern Recognition, Neuro-computation, Machine Learning and Computer Vision, the organizer of the first IEEE-published International workshops on Face Processing in Video (2004-5), Video Processing for Security (2006) and Video Processing and Recognition (2007), and the Editor of Special Issue of Image and Vision Computing journal on Face Processing in Video Sequences (2006). He is the recipient of the NRC Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award, the Young Investigator Award from the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society and was nominated in 2004 a Leader of Tomorrow by the Canadian Partnership Group for Science and Engineering.


Dr. Eric Granger (Eric.Granger@etsmtl.ca)

Eric Granger obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal in 2001, and from 1999 to 2001, he was a Defence Scientist at Defence R&D Canada in Ottawa. Until then, his work was focused primarily on neural network signal processing for fast classification of radar signals in Electronic Surveillance systems. From 2001 to 2003, he worked in R&D with Mitel Networks Inc. on algorithms and ASICs to implement cryptographic functions in IP-based communication platforms. In 2004, Dr. Eric Granger joined the École de technologie supérieure (Université du Quebec), where he presently holds the rank of Associate Professor in the département de génie de la production automatisée. Since joining ÉTS, he has been a member of the Laboratoire d'imagerie, de vision et d'intelligence artificielle (LIVIA), and his main research interests are adaptive classification systems, incremental learning, ambiguity and novelty detection, neural and statistical classifiers, and multi-classifier systems, with applications in biometrics (authentication from signatures and faces), military surveillance (recognition of radar signals), and computer and network security (intrusion detection). To date, he has authored/co-authored over 50 open literature papers with peer reviews, and supervised/co-supervised 20 graduate students in these areas of research.


Dr. Adams Wai Kin Kong (AdamsKong@ntu.edu.sg)

Adams Wai Kin Kong, received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His papers have been published in TPAMI, TIP, TIFS, TSMC, TCSVT, CVPR and Pattern Recognition. One of his papers was selected as a spotlight paper by TPAMI and another one was selected as Honorable Mention by Pattern Recognition. With his students, he received best student paper awards in The IEEE Fifth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, 2012 and IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, 2013. In the summer of 2008, he served as an expert witness to the U.S. Department of Justice for a case of child sexual abuse. He has developed seven patents; four of his patents have been approved, and the others have been filed. His research interests include biometrics, forensics, image processing and pattern recognition.


Dr. Hugo Proença (hugomcp@di.ubi.pt)

Hugo Proença, SMIEEE’12, B.Sc. (2001), M.Sc. (2004) and Ph.D. (2007) is an Associate Professor at University of Beira Interior and has been researching mainly about biometrics and visual-surveillance, namely in developing biometric recognition solutions able to work in conditions such unconstrained that are still confined to non-automated visual surveillance. He is the coordinating editor of the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter and the area editor (ocular biometrics) of the IEEE Biometrics Compendium Journal. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Biometrics and served as Guest Editor of special issues of the Pattern Recognition Letters, Image and Vision Computing and Signal, Image and Video Processing journals. He published over 70 papers in major international journals and conference proceedings (e.g., IEEE-TPAMI, IEEE-TIFS, IEEE-TIP, CVIU, IJCB, BTAS and AVSS).


Dr. Seref Sagiroglu (ss@gazi.edu.tr)

Seref Sagiroglu, IEEE Senior Member, received his B.Sc. degree from the Department of Electronics, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey, in 1987, and his PhD degree from the Department of System Engineering, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK, in 1994. Currently, he is a Chairman of Computer Engineering Department at Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. His research interests include artificial neural networks, heuristics methods, information security, robotics, intelligent system modelling, identification and control, biometrics, intelligent antenna design, web based real-time control, and open and distance learning. Dr. Sagiroglu serves as a Chairman on Information Security and Cryptology Conference. He is also Chairman of Information Security Association of Turkey.


Dr. Fabio Scotti (fscotti@dti.unimi.it)

Fabio Scotti received the Ing. degree in Electronic Engineering in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 2003 from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. From 2003 he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technologies, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. From 2009 he is the director of the Biometric Systems Laboratory of the Department of Information Technologies, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. His research interests include biometric systems, biometric encryption and privacy-compliant biometric templates, contactless biometrics, multimodal biometric systems, signal and image processing, computational intelligence algorithms and related technologies for industrial applications, high-level system design. He published more than 50 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.


Dr. Jia-Ching Wang (wjcmail@seed.net.tw)

Jia-Ching Wang received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1997 and 2002, respectively. Since 2003, he has been with Electrical and Information Technology Center, National Cheng Kung University, where he is a research scientist. He also worked at Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, in Fall 2006 as an honorary fellow. His research interests include multimedia signal processing, computational intelligence, and VLSI architecture design. Dr. Wang is an honorary member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society. He is also a member of IEEE, ACM, and IEICE. He has published about 20 journal papers and 30 papers in international conferences and workshops. He has also obtained 5 invention patents. He won the Golden Silicon Award in 2001. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious IICM award, Acer Dragon Thesis Award, and Wen-Zen Memorial Paper Award. He received the Lam Research Corporation Award in 2004.


Dr. Lan Wang (lan.wang@siat.ac.cn)

Lan Wang is an Associate Researcher of Ambient Intelligence and Multi-modal Systems Lab, ShenZhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She received her Master of Science in the Center of Information Science, Peking University. and then worked as a lecture in the Center of Information Science from 1996 to 2001. She obtained the Ph.D degree from the Machine Intelligence Laboratory of Cambridge University Engineering Department, and then worked as a Research Associate in the Machine Intelligence Laboratory. In 2007, she joined the ShenZhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS, She has worked on the Autonomous Global Integrated Language Exploitation project funded under DARPA's Global Autonomous Language Exploitation program. Her current research interests are large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, audio-visual speaker authentication and audio information indexing. Dr. Lan Wang is a member of IEEE and has authored and co-authored over 30 papers.


Dr. Qinghan Xiao (qinghan.xiao@drdc-rddc.gc.ca)

Qinghan Xiao, IEEE Senior Member, received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1982 and 1985 respectively, and his PhD from the Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1994. Currently, he is a Defence Scientist at the Defence R&D Canada Ottawa. His research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, biometrics, and RFID technology. Dr. Xiao is the recipient of 2010 IEEE Ottawa Section Outstanding Engineer Award for his contributions to the area of biometrics. He has authored/co-authored more than 50 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.


Dr. Yong Xu (laterfall2@yahoo.com.cn)

Yong Xu was born in Sichuan, China, in 1972. He received his B.S. degree, M.S. degree in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Pattern recognition and Intelligent System at Nanjing University of Science & Technology(China) in 2005. From August 2007 to May 2008, he works at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a researcher assistant. Now he works at Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology. In 2008, Yong Xu was supported by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China. His current interests include biometrics, feature extraction, machine learning, image processing and video analysis. He has published more than 60 scientific papers.


Dr. David Zhang (csdzhang@comp.polyu.edu.hk)

David Zhang, IEEE Fellow, graduated in Computer Science from Peking University. He received his MSc in Computer Science in 1982 and his PhD in 1985 from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). From 1986 to 1988 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University and then an Associate Professor at the Academia Sinica, Beijing. In 1994 he received his second PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Currently, he is a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is the Founding Director of the Biometrics Technology Centre (UGC/CRC) supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 1998. He also serves as Visiting Chair Professor in Tsinghua University, and Adjunct Professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Beihang University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and the University of Waterloo. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG); Book Editor, Springer International Series on Biometrics (KISB); Organizer, the International Conference on Biometrics Authentication (ICBA); Associate Editor of more than ten international journals including IEEE Trans on SMC-A/SMC-C/Pattern Recognition; Technical Committee Chair of IEEE CIS and the author of more than 10 books and 200 journal papers. Professor Zhang is a Croucher Senior Research Fellow, Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR).


Dr. Huiyu Zhou (H.Zhou@ecit.qub.ac.uk)

Huiyu Zhou obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China, and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was then awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Dr. Zhou is presently a lecturer at the Queen's University of Belfast. He has worked in the Guangxi Medical University (China), Elscint Ltd. (Israel), University of Essex (UK), University of London (UK), and Brunel University (UK). He has taken part in the consortiums of a number of research projects in medical image processing, computer vision, intelligent systems and data mining. Dr. Zhou has published over 120 peer reviewed papers in the field. He was the recipient of "CVIU 2012 Most Cited Paper Award" and was shortlisted for "MBEC 2006 Nightingale Prize". He also won one of the "Best Paper Awards" in the 1993 Annual Conference of China Association for Medical Devices Industry. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of "Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering", and is on the Editorial Boards of several refereed journals. He is a Guest Co-Editor of Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing, Signal Processing, Signal, Image and Video Processing and Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a Co-Chair of International Workshop on Sparse Representation for Event Detection in Multimedia. He serves or has served as a technical program committee for 300 conferences in signal and image processing and a reviewer for 90 refereed journals including 19 IEEE Transactions/Journals. Dr. Zhou has been an external examiner for PhD candidates of Universities of Essex and Brunel (UK) and Visvesvaraya Technological University (India). He is a reviewer of research grant proposals for EPSRC, NEAT and RSE.