Chair

Vice-Chair

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. 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. 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. 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).