President: Nalini Ratha, IBM, USA;

VP Conferences: Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, USA;
VP Education: Arun Ross, West Virginia University, USA;
VP Finances: Stephanie Schuckers, Clarkson University, USA;
VP Publications: Ajay Kumar, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;
VP Technical Activities: Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston, USA;

Society representatives (in alphabetical order by society)

Shirley N. Cheng, Boeing, USA;
Representative of the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (2008-09)
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada;
Representative of the Circuits and Systems Society (2008-09)
Qinghan Xiao, Defence Research and Development Canada, Canada;
Representative of the Computational Intelligence Society
Tsog-nHo Wu , Telcordia Technologies Inc., USA;
Representative of the Communications Society (2008-09)
Anil Jain , Michigan State University, USA;
Representative of the Computer Society (2008-09)
Peter Corcoran , National University of Ireland, Ireland;
Representative of the Consumer Electronics Society (2008-09)
Jose Principe, University of Florida, USA;
Representative of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2008-09)
Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada;
Representative of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society (2008-09)
Jie Tian, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;
Representative of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (2008-09)
Mario Degenais, University of Maryland, USA;
Representative of the Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (2008-09)
David Abe , Naval Research Laboratory, USA;
Representative of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (2008-09)
Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy;
Representative of the Robotics and Automation Society (2008-09)
TBA;
Representative of the Reliability Society (2008-09)
Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, Carnegie Mellon University, USA;
Representative of the Signal Processing Society (2008-09)
Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, USA;
Representative of the Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (2008-09)
Wanda K. Gass, Texas Instruments, USA;
Representative of the Solid-State Circuits Society (2008-09)
Kendall Waters, Volcano Corp, USA;
Representative of the Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (2008-09)
Joel Snyder, Snyder Associates, USA
Representative of the Vehicular Technology Society (2008-09)

Nominations Committee of the Biometrics Council

Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, College Park, USA (Chair)
Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Venu Govindaraju, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

Fellows committee

Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (Chair)
Venu Govindaraju, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Lawrence Hall, University of South Florida, USA
Anil Jain, Michigan State University, USA
Jonathon Phillips, NIST, USA
Jose Principe, University of Florida, USA

Technical Committee

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.

Joseph Campbell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA (Acting Chair)
J. Ross Beveridge, Colorado State University, USA
Jean-Francois Bonastre, University of Avignon, LIA, France
Terrance Boult, University of Colorado, USA
Christoph Busch, Gjovik University College, Norway
James Cambier, Cross Match Technologies, Inc., USA
Jan Cernocky, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA
Martin Drahansky, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Patrick Flynn, University of Notre Dame, USA
Patrick Grother, NIST, USA
Peter Higgins, Higgins & Associates, International, USA
James Hutchinson, US Army, USA
Anil Jain, Michigan State University, USA
Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston, USA
Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
Ajay Kumar, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Gerald Larocque, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Philip Melese, SRI, USA
William Murphy, SRI, USA
Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, UK
Sharath Pankanti, IBM, USA
Jason Pelecanos, IBM, USA
Paula Pomianowski, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Salil Prabhakar, USA
Nalini Ratha, IBM, USA
Brian Redman, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA
Arun Ross, West Virginia University, USA
Marios Savvides, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Stephanie Schuckers, Clarkson University, USA
David Stoker, SRI, USA
James Wayman, San José State University, USA

Education committee

Arun Ross, West Virginia University, USA (Chair, ExOfficio)
Norman Poh, University of Surrey, UK
Richa Singh, IIIT Delhi, India
Damon Woodard, Clemson University, USA