The College of Engineering and Computing invites you to attend the following P&T seminar: “I Can Trust, It’s You”: Building Secure and Trustworthy Biometric Systems of Next-Generation Dr. Emanuela Marasco Department of Information Sciences and Technology Tuesday, October 10, 2023, at 2pm ENGR 1602, Nguyen Building Zoom Link: https://gmu.zoom.us/j/99788451613?pwd=R3BxRWJydFVRL2U1aW1YNkd4ZVFSQT09 Abstract Biometric technologies have been increasingly adopted for identity verification in various applications including border control, immigration, and financial services. Therefore, these systems condition society enormously. Despite several benefits, traditional solutions are limited by demographic differentials, e.g., face recognition is less accurate for women, and spoofing, e.g., fingerprint scanners can be deceived by sophisticated 3D printing techniques. Since these concerns have challenged society’s trust, experts are spending tremendous effort to mitigate them. Exploring advanced instrumentation represents a viable alternative to ensure the trustworthiness, security, and convenience of biometric recognition. By combining imaging with spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging (HSI) can lead to broad innovative work to establish human identity. HSI generates data in hundreds of wavelengths providing richer features to create a deeper profile of the identity and, subsequently, systems more accurate and resilient to spoofing. This talk will also discuss the evolution of mobile biometrics in a contactless world. Considering their rapid growth and increased accessibility, highlights will focus on new ways to securely unlock smartphone devices and protect sensitive data at low cost. Speaker Bio Emanuela Marasco is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology and the Center for Secure Information Systems at George Mason University. She conducts research on the topics of biometrics, machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision. She has been a co-author at the foremost conferences in the world in these fields, publishing about 40 papers between conferences and workshops, and 8 journal papers. Her contribution has advanced the state-of-the-art in anti-spoofing, sensor interoperability, soft biometrics estimation, biometric-based multi-factor authentication, and image de-identification pertaining to fingerprint systems. She is an Associate Editor of the newsletter published by the IEEE Biometric Council. She is the demo chair of the IEEE WACV 2024. In previous years, she served as publications co-chair of the IEEE BTAS and IJCB. She is the recipient of the Mason Innovation Award 2023 for her participation in the Innovation Commercialization Assistance Program (ICAP). She is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Digital Innovation (IDIA) for the Public-Private-Partnership (P3) Program. She is the recipient of two NSF EAGER awards for her research on hyperspectral biometrics. She is PI on grants funded by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), and has collaborated on several projects funded by NSF, DOJ, and DHS. She has filed two patents.