Mandatory Biography

• I am currently working in Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, as a Professor
• President, IEEE Biometrics Council (2021-2022)
• Editorial Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2019-)
• Editorial Board Member, IEEE Transactions on IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Sciences (2018-2020)
• IAPR Fellow (2016), IEEE Fellow (2018)
• I have been earlier working in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, as an Assistant Professor (2005-2008)
  • Member, Departmental Research Committee, IIT Delhi (2006-2007)
  • M. Tech Coordinator, IIT Delhi (2006-2007)
  • Founder and Lab-in-Charge, Biometrics Research Laboratory, IIT Delhi
• Vice President (Publications), IEEE Biometrics Council (2011-2012)        (2013-2014)       
• Editorial Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2010-2013)
• Editorial Board Member, Pattern Recognition Letters (since 2012)
• Area Editor (Hand Biometrics), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, 2008
• Senior Member, IEEE (2007-)
• PhD Degree From The University of Hong Kong, 2001
• Research interests:
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Biometric Authentication and Recognition
  • Defect detection in textured materials
  • Multimodal intelligent interfaces (Human-Computer Interaction)