- Authored more than 100 scientific publications, including papers in top-tier journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Pattern Recognition, and Image and Vision Computing
- Active as Associate Editor for IET Biometrics and Pattern Recognition Letters
- Serves as referee for major journals and conferences in biometrics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence
- BullyBuster and BullyBuster 2 projects were listed among the TOP100 global initiatives addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals by IRCAI-UNESCO
Research Experience
- Leads the Biometric Unit of the sAIfer Lab
- Founder and chair of the International Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet) since 2009
- Director of the Interuniversity Research Center “BullyBuster”
- Contributed to several European (FP7 Tabula Rasa, Let’s Crowd) and national research projects
- Collaborated with leading international experts such as Anil Jain, Sébastien Marcel, Christoph Busch, and Julian Fierrez
- Established technology transfer agreements with major companies like Crossmatch, DEDEM, and Thales
Education
PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering; obtained the national scientific qualification for full professorship.
Background
Research focuses on biometric recognition systems, with particular emphasis on fingerprint presentation attack detection (PAD), deepfake detection, biometric forensics, and secure AI technologies for identity verification.