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CyLab Researcher Selected To Join New Center For Academic Studies In Identity Sciences
CyLab Researcher Marios Savvides is one of four researchers selected to be part of a new Center for Academic Studies In Identity Sciences (CASIS), a Center of Academic Excellence (CAE), under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). This is the ODNI's first CAE created as a pilot with an emphasis on science and technology.
CASIS will provide the intelligence community with a pool of talented researchers in biometrics and provide a wide variety of innovative solutions to critical identity security issues. The new center also is charged with boosting the number of African American Ph.D. and master's students working in the area of biometrics.
Dr. Savvides, Director of CyLab's Biometrics Lab and Research Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is developing several critical capabilities in state-of-the-art algorithm development in iris and facial matching including a fast novel approach to create 3D face models from a single 2D facial image for advanced un-constrained face recognition and the development of a new forensic science tool for using the iris anatomy in the human eye.
"Our work is filling a huge gap in facial and iris recognition and that's why I'm extremely honored and very proud to be part of the ODNI Center of Academic Excellence dedicated to finding new critical solutions to some very difficult national security issues," Savvides said.
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