Ph. D. student, Computer Engineering Department, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Julian Fierrez-Aguilar received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2001, from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. Since 2004 he is with the Computer Engineering Department, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where he is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree on multimodal biometrics. His research interests are focused on signal and image processing, pattern recognition and biometrics. He has published over 20 international contributions. He was the recipient of the Best Poster Award at AVBPA 2003 and led the development of the UPM on-line signature verification system ranked 2nd in SVC 2004.
Professor and Acting Department Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijayakumar Bhagavatula received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh and since 1982, he has been a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at CMU where he is now a Professor and the Acting Department Head. He served as the Associate Head of the ECE Department from 1994 to 1996. In 2003, he received the Eta Kappa Nu Most Outstanding Teacher award in ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institute of Technology’s Dowd Fellowship for educational contributions. Professor Kumar's research interests include Pattern Recognition (for automatic target recognition and biometrics applications) and Coding and Signal Processing for Data Storage Systems and for Digital Communications. He has authored or co-authored about 350 technical papers in these areas. He served as a Topical Editor for the Information Processing division of Applied Optics. Professor Kumar is a member of Sigma Xi, a senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of SPIE - The International Society of Optical Engineering, and a Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA). He is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World and in the American Men and Women of Sciences.
Professor, San Jose State University
Dr. Wayman is an advisor to the US and UK governments on biometric technology. He serves as a "Principal UK Expert" on the ISO standards committee and is a member of the National Academies of Science "Whither Biometrics?" committee. From 1997 to 2000, he was Director of the U.S. National Biometric Test Center.
Professor, University of Valencia
Francesc J. Ferri received the Licenciado degree in Physics (Electricity, Electronics and Computer Science) in 1987 and the Ph.D. degree in Pattern Recognition in 1993 both from the Universitat de València. Dr. Ferri has been with the Computer Science and Electronics Department of the Universtitat de València since 1986; first as a research fellow and as a teacher of Computer Science and Pattern Recognition since 1988. He has been involved in a number of scientific and technical projects on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition including a sabbatical with the Vision, Speech and Signal Processing group in the University of Surrey, UK. He has authored or coauthored about 90 conference and journal papers on several aspects of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. His current research interests include Feature Selection, Statistical Pattern Recognition Methodology, Nonparametric Classification Methods, Neural Networks, Inductive Learning, Computational Geometry and Image Analysis. Dr. Ferri is a member of the Spanish Society for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Professor, University of Texas, Austin
J.K. Aggarwal has served on the faculty of The University of Texas in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1964. He is currently one of the Cullen Professors of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor Aggarwal earned his B.Sc. from University of Bombay, India in 1957, B. Eng. from University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, 1960, M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, in 1961 and 1964 respectively. A fellow of IEEE and IAPR, Professor Aggarwal received the Best Paper Award of the Pattern Recognition Society in 1975, the Senior Research Award of the American Society of Engineering Education in 1992 and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in 1996. He is the recipient of the 2004 K. S. Fu Prize of the IAPR and the 2005 Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award of the IEEE. He is the author or editor of 7 books and 52 book chapters, author of over 200 journal papers, as well as numerous proceeding papers and technical reports.
Associate Professor, University of Vigo, Spain
Carmen Garcia-Mateo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Signal Processing & Communications at University of Vigo, Spain. She served as the Department Deputy Chair during 1998-2001. She received her M.S. (Ingeniero de Telecomunicación) and Ph.D. degrees from Technical University of Madrid (UPM) in 1987 and 1993, respectively. She has been a vistor at UC Santa Barbara and Bell Labs. Her current research interests include speech and speaker recognition, content-based indexing and retrieval, text-to-speech conversion systems and resource collection for minority languages. She is the coordinator of GTS-UVigo activities in the area of Speech Technology.
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Mario A. T. Figueiredo received EE, MSc, and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering, at Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), the engineering school of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1985, 1990, and 1994, respectively. Since 1994, he has been with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IST. He is also a researcher and area coordinator at the Institute of Telecommunications, Lisbon. In 1998, he held a visiting position with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University. His scientific interests include image processing and analysis, computer vision, statistical pattern recognition, and statistical learning. He received the Portuguese IBM Scientific Prize in 1995, for work on unsupervised image restoration. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and Pattern Recognition Letters. He was guest co-editor of special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He was a co-chair of the 2001 and 2003 Workshops on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. He has been a member of program committees of several international conferences, including CVPR, EECV, ICASSP, ICIP, ICPR.