Best paper award in ICML 2019 workshop; ACM TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award for a journal paper in 2011; One top 10% paper in ICIP 2014 conference and two top 10% papers in MMSP 2014 conference; Over 80 research publications; Co-editor of the JPEG XT standard for HDR images; Contributor to the signal processing and machine learning open source toolbox Bob.
Research Experience
PopEye EU HORIZON project: face and gait recognition at distance and bias mitigation; FactCheck Hasler project: fact checking synthetic news; ROSALIND Innosuisse project: generation and detection of deepfakes and forged documents; SENTINEL-UK Innosuisse project: age verification and deepfakes detection; Savi project in DARPA Media Forensics program: tampering and deepfake detection in videos; ODESSA EU project: speaker diarization and speech anti-spoofing.
Education
PhD: Computer Science, National University of Singapore, advisor: Wei Tsang Ooi, from Aug 2003 till Apr 2011; Specialist: Mathematics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, advisor: Koznov D. V., from Sep 1997 till July 2002.
Background
Research Interests: Biometrics Security and Privacy, synthetic data generation and detection, age verification, fact checking. Professional Field: Computer Science. Brief Introduction: Currently working in the Biometrics Security and Privacy (BSP) group at Idiap Research Institute, headed by Dr. Sebastien Marcel.