Executive Committee

Nasir Memon headshot.

President

Nasir Memon
New York University, USA
Terms Ends: 2024

President-Elect

Stephanie Schuckers
Clarkson University, USA
Terms Ends: 2024

Ajay Kumar headshot.

Past President

Ajay Kumar
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Terms Ends: 2024

Alber Ali Salah headshot.

VP Conferences

Albert Ali Salah
 Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Terms Ends: 2024

VP Education

Shiqi Yu
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Terms Ends: 2025

VP Finances

Raghvendra Ramchandra
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Term Ends: 2025

Patrizio Campisi headshot.

VP Publications

Patrizio Campisi
Roma Tre University, Italy
Term Ends: 2024

Vitomir Struc headshot.

VP Technical Activities

Vitomir Struc
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Term Ends: 2025

The IEEE Biometrics Council’s Technical Committee’s roles and responsibilities include supporting conference paper reviews; reviewing and creating expert web content; reviewing tutorials; supporting award nominations; cooperating with the publications, conferences and education committees; and actively shaping the technical future of biometrics within the IEEE.

  • Vitomir Struc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (Chair)
  • Antitza Dantcheva, INRIA, France
  • Naser Damer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
  • Qiang Ji, RPI, USA
  • Karthik Nandakumar, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • Massimo Tistarelli, Universita di Sassari, Italy

The Publications Committee manages all the publications activities of IEEE Biometrics Council and interfaces with other entities to promote biometric publications.

  • Patrizio Campisi, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy (Chair)
  • Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
  • Clinton Fookes, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Nalini Ratha, SUNY, University at Buffalo, USA
  • Richa Singh, IIT Jodhpur, India

The Education Committee manages the Distinguished Lecturers Program (DLP); organizes biometric seminars; evaluates scholarship requests from students; facilitates the development of biometric tutorials; and interfaces with other entities to promote biometric education across IEEE as well as society-at-large.

  • Vivek Kanhangad, IIT Indore, India (Chair)
  • Jianjiang Feng, Tsinghua University, China
  • Koichi Ito, Tohoku University, Japan
  • Raghavendra Ramachandra, NTNU, Norway
  • Ajita Rattani, WSU, USA
  • Vishal Patel, Johns Hopkins University, USA (Chair)
  • Jiwen Lu, Tsinghua University, China
  • Olga Bellon, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
  • Walter J. Scheirer, University of Notre Dame, USA
  • Vitomir Štruc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Yongfu Li (China), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
  • Mihail Popescu (USA), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Vishal Patel (USA), IEEE Computer Society
  • Peter M Corcoran (Ireland), IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
  • Voicu Z Groza (Canada), IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
  • Bruce Hecht (USA), IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
  • Wing Ng (China), IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society
  • Robert H. Caverly (USA), IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
  • Sreeraman Rajan (Canada), IEEE Consumer Technology Society
  • Quanyan Zhu (USA), IEEE Control System Society
  • Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee (USA), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
  • Se Young Chun (South Korea), IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
  • Ajay Kumar, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (Chair)
  • Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, USA
  • Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, UK
  • Tieniu Tan, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
  • Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, USA (Chair)
  • Stephanie Schuckers, Clarkson University, USA (Vice-Chair)
  • Patrizio Campisi, Universita’ degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
  • Patrick Flynn, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
  • Terrance Boult, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
  • Dong Xu, The University of Hong Kong
  • Ajita Rattani, Wichita State University, USA (Chair)
  • Walter J. Scheirer, UND, USA
  • Jiwen Lu, Tsinghua University, China
  • Vitomir Struc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Ruben Vera, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
  • William Schwartz, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  • Maneet Singh, Master Card AI Garage, India
  • Ajay Kumar, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (Chair)
  • Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, UK
  • Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, USA
  • Venu Govindaraju, SUNY, University at Buffalo, USA

Identity Science

  • Adams Kong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Chair)
  • Wael Abd-Almageed, University of Southern California, USA
  • Jiankun Hu, University of New South Wales, Australia

Industrial Pratictioners

  • Sunpreet Arora, VISA, USA (Chair)
  • Mudit Agrawal, Microsoft, USA
  • Haining Chen, Google, USA
  • Brendan Klare, Rank One Computing, USA
  • Asem Othman, Acuant, USA
  • Jian WANG, Thales, USA

Security and Privacy

  • Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria (Chair)
  • Jiulian Bringer, Kallistech, France
  • Patrizio Campisi, Roma Tre University, Italy
  • Marta Gomez-Barrero, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
  • Venugopal Govindaraju, University of Buffalo, USA
  • Sebastien Marcel, IDIAP, Switzerland
  • Karthik Nandakumar, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Societal Impact and Social Good

  • Nasir Memon, New York University, USA (Chair)
  • Albert Ali Salah, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Gang Hua, Wormpex AI Research, China
  • Zhenan Sun, CASIA, China
  • John Howard, Maryland Test Facility, USA
  • Catherine Jasserand, KU Lueven, Belgium
  • Jake Parker, Security Industry Association, USA
  • Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Webinar Chair
  • Vitomir Štruc, Technical Activities liaison
  • Chang Wen Chen, Publications liaison
  • Vivek Kanhangad, Education liaison
  • Marija Ivanovska, Operations Coordinator
  • P. Jonathon Phillips, NIST, USA (Chair)