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(2024) Delivered a SnapTalk at the Faculty Colloquium, Bucknell University, USA, on Biometrics security and beyond! Thanks to the Faculty Colloquium committee for the selection and the kind invitation.
(2024) Delivered an invited lecture at Virginia Tech on Behavioral Biometrics: Challenges and Possibilities. Thanks, Abhijit Sarkar, for the kind invitation.
(2024) Delivered two invited talks at the University of Houston, one on behavioral biometrics and the other on undergraduate teaching and research in the era of LLMs
(2024) Received the Best Paper Award of IJCB 2024, Congratulations to all the contributors! IJCB 2024 Award Winners
(2024) Received Best Reviewer Award at IJCB 2024! Thanks to the committee for recognizing the endless effort.
(2024) A paper titled "Keystroke Dynamics Against Academic Dishonesty in the Age of LLMs," written in collaboration with MIDAS-IIITDelhi, was accepted for publication at the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2024). This is Debnath's first-ever research publication. My heartiest congratulations to him and other co-authors as this distinguished journey starts for them. Received all three strong accepts from reviewers of IJCB 2024 [paper][code][ppt] [Accept rate: 32.2%]
(2024) A paper titled "Deep Generative Attacks and Countermeasures for Data-Driven Writer-Dependent Static Signature Verification" with my students An Ngo and MinhPhuong Cao from Bucknell University was accepted for publication at the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2024). This is An's and Phuong's first-ever research publication. My heartiest congratulations to both as this distinguished journey starts for them! [paper][code] [Accept rate: 32.2%]
(2024) A paper with Students Alvin Kuruvilla and Rojanaye Daley, titled "Spotting Fake Profiles in Social Networks via Keystroke Dynamics," was accepted for publication at the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2024). This is Alvin's and Ro's first-ever research publication. My heartiest congratulations to both as this distinguished journey starts for them! Average accept rate--24.4% [paper][code][video]
(2023) Received Outstanding Reviewer Award from The IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023) is the premier international forum for biometrics and related technologies research. Six reviewers of 230 reviewers were recognized for their outstanding effort in making IJCB 2023 a great success, Outstanding Reviewers – IEEE IJCB 2023 (ieee-biometrics.org)
(2023) Hung Ngo was awarded Second prize in the ACM Student Research Competition at The Richard Tapia Conference 2023 for his research on "A Touchless Typing Approach Using Apple Augmented Reality Kit and Sequence-to-Sequence Learning." Winners, SRC 2023-2024 (acm.org) [pdf]
(2023) A paper on the security of IMU-based gait titled, "Dictionary Attack on IMU-based Gait Authentication", was accepted for publication at AISec'23 colocated with ACM CCS, Copenhagen and will be presented in November 2023 at ACM CCS 2023
(2023) Work with my undergraduate student Jun H. Mo titled, "iCTGAN--An Attack Mitigation Technique for Random-vector Attack on Accelerometer-based Gait Authentication Systems", featured among the best-reviewed papers at IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2022) [pdf]
(2023) A paper titled "Synthesizing Human Gaze Feedback for Improved NLP Performance", was accepted at the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023); congratulations to the co-authors, especially Varun and Yaman!
(2022) A paper titled "GANTouch: An Attack-Resilient Framework for Touch-based Continuous Authentication System" was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM Sept 2022); congratulations to the co-authors Mohit Agrawal; Pragyan Mehrotra; and Rajiv Ratn Shah.
(2022) A paper titled "iCTGAN–An Attack Mitigation Technique for Random-vector Attack on Accelerometer-based Gait Authentication Systems", was accepted at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2022) for ORAL presentation; congratulations to Jun Mo on his first research paper as an undergraduate student!
(2021) Work with M Agrawal and P Mehrotra, and Rajiv R Shah, titled "Defending Touch-based Continuous Authentication Systems from Active Adversaries Using Generative Adversarial Networks", featured among the best-reviewed papers at IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2021 [pdf]
(2021) Best Reviewer Award from International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2021)
(2021) A paper titled "Defending Touch-based Continuous Authentication Systems from Active Adversaries Using Generative Adversarial Networks" was accepted for an oral presentation at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2021!
(2021) I will work with Sorelle Friedler, Sara Mathieson, and Alvin Grissom at Haverford College, Seny Kamara at Brown University, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian at U. Utah on the Spread and Scale Stage (Stage II) of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge Research project. January 25th, 2021
(2020) A journal paper titled "Treadmill Assisted Gait Spoofing (TAGS): An Emerging Threat to Wearable Sensor-based Gait Authentication", was accepted at ACM Journal of Digital Threats: Research and Practice, December 8th, 2020
(2018) The paper titled "Context-aware Active Authentication Using Smartphone Accelerometer Measurement", published at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPRW), 2014, received the Highest Impact Award at CVPRW 2018.
(2017) Popular Choice Award, 3 MT Thesis Competition
(2017) Recognition for Distinguished Service to the Board of Trustees, Syracuse University, NY
(2016) Doctoral Consortium Award by IEEE Biometrics Council, at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS 2016)
(2015) GSO Travel Grant Award for attending the 6th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS 2015)