Biometrics and Biomedical Analytics Group

Group member presentation

8 April 2014

Behavioural

Physiological

Psychological

Biomedical

Identity management

Forensic evidence

Health science

Personalised health+care

Biometric and Biomedical data

sourcesLarge data

VolumeVelocityVeracityVariety

Automation, knowledge,

decision support

Machine learning,

HPC, Statistics

Biometric sensors, m-health, mobile phones

Research vision

• Biometrics, biostatistics, pattern recognition, machine learning

Research interests

• Using data analytics to improve the quality of life

Research aspiration

• Swimming, programmingHobbies

• http://goo.gl/IYiImOWebsite:

Norman Poh is a Computer Scientist and lecturer at the Department of Computing, University of Surrey, UK. He obtained his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Switzerland) in 2006. Prior to this, he was with CVSSP, Surrey; IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland; and LSIIT, Universite Louis Pasteur, France. His areas of expertise are pattern recognition and information fusion, applied to biometrics, healthcare, forensics, and big-data analytics. In these areas, he has published more than 70 scientific publications. He is the recipient of 5 Best Scientific Paper awards, two Swiss NSF Fellowship Awards, and the Research of the Year 2011 Award of University of Surrey.

Team leader

Aamo is a first year PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Anthony TS Ho and Dr. Norman Poh. His research topic is “Application of Digital Forensic Techniques to Biometrics”. He obtained a B.Sc in Computer Science at Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria and a Masters in Forensic Computing, Coventry University, UK. He has two publications so far.

• Forensics• BiometricsResearch interests

• Apply digital forensics techniques to biometric data.

Research aspiration

• Watching Football, ReadingHobbies

PhD student

• Machine learning, Kernel methods, Image analysis, Natural language Processing

Research interests

• Solve hard data problems by exploring, modelling and visualizing the data.

Research aspiration

• Cooking, surfing internet, listening to black metal music.Hobbies

• http:www.santosh-tirunagari.comWebsite:

Santosh Tirunagari joined the Dept. of computing in January 2014. He is supervised by Dr Norman Poh and Dr David Windridge (CVSSP). His research topic is "Advancing Machine Learning and Data Mining Algorithms for Processing Big Data". He completed his Masters degree from Aalto University, Finland (2010-2013). Previously he was a web programmer (2009) and GIS specialist (2010) . He completed his Bachelor degree from the JNTU, India (2009). He was also a founder of LokalHouse (2013). His areas of interests are ML applications for Image analysis and Text mining. In these areas, he has published 10 papers. He is the recipient of ACE Invention award for LokalHouse, two travel grants for attending conferences, and four research grants for carrying out research in masters degree program.

PhD student

Nik Suki started her PhD study at the Department of Computing, University of Surrey on October 2013. Her principal supervisor is Dr Norman Poh and secondary supervisor is Dr Saeid Sanei. Her research area is “Measuring the strength of evidence in Forensic Biometrics”. She obtained her MSc Degree in Computer Science (Information Security) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia in 2013 and her BSc Degree in Computer Science (Software Engineering) from Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia in 2007. Her study is funded by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Pahang.

• Forensics• BiometricsResearch interests

• Measuring the strength of biometrics evidence.

Research aspiration

• Cooking, travelling, watching moviesHobbies

PhD student

• Biometrics, usability, standards, smart environments

Research interests

• Improve and increase the use of biometrics

Research aspiration

• Sports, movies, travellingHobbies

• guti.uc3m.es/Ramon_Blanco-GonzaloWebsite:

Ramón Blanco Gonzalo obtained his Degree in Telematics Engineering at University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) in 2009. He completed his inter university Master in Telematics Engineering in 2011, being his Master Thesis related to smart environments and biometrics. He is currently working at the University Group of Identification Technologies (GUTI), as a R&D engineer. His PhD is focused on analyzing and improving the usability in biometric systems.Furthermore, he is a member and editor of the AEN/CTN71/SC37 “Biometric Identification“ and the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 “Biometrics”.

Visiting Researcher

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