The Biometrics Council is pleased to announce the winners of the IEEE Biometrics Council Awards for 2025. Meritorious Service Award: Patrick Flynn for Outstanding Service on the IEEE Biometric Council, Organizing Biometric Conferences, and Editing Journals. Leadership Award: Mark Nixon for Leadership Excellence in Research on Gait and Ear Recognition, Soft Biometrics, and Service to the [...]
We are pleased to announce new awards associated with IEEE TBIOM. We have now instituted the annual IEEE TBIOM Best Associate Editor Award and the IEEE TBIOM Best Reviewer. These awards will be usually given to two AEs and to a small number of top reviewers. We are awarding the prizes based on level of [...]
The 17th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (Information and Communication Technologies category) has gone to Anil K. Jain, a distinguished professor at Michigan State University, for core contributions in machine learning that have powered the development of biometrics and artificial intelligence. Jain’s work has laid the foundation for modern biometric systems, significantly advancing technologies for [...]
IEEE Biometrics Council Meritorious Service Award Deadline: March 1, 2025 Nominations are invited for the "IEEE Biometrics Council Meritorious Service Award" to honor outstanding service in the field of biometrics. The award is administered by the IEEE Biometrics Council Award Committee, which is responsible for reviewing and recommending candidates to the IEEE Biometrics Council Executive [...]
IEEE Biometrics Council Meritorious Service Award Deadline: March 1, 2024 Nominations are invited for the "IEEE Biometrics Council Meritorious Service Award" to honor outstanding service in the field of biometrics. The award is administered by the IEEE Biometrics Council Award Committee, which is responsible for reviewing and recommending candidates to the IEEE Biometrics Council Executive [...]
The Biometrics Council is pleased to announce the winners of the IEEE Biometrics Council Awards for 2023. Mayank Vatsa, Meritorious Service Award Kevin Bowyer, Leadership Award Chaoyou Fu, Best Doctoral Dissertation Award Transactions on Biometrics Behavior & Identity Science Best Paper Award: Accuracy comparison across face recognition algorithms: Where are we on measuring race bias? [...]
Nomination Deadline: March 1, 2023 T-BIOM Science Best Paper Award Nominations This award is to recognize on a yearly basis a highly influential and impacting article published at IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science (TBIOM) in the preceding two calendar years. Any paper published in the 2021 or 2022 issue of T-BIOM is [...]
2022 IEEE Biometrics Council Best Doctoral Dissertation Award Nomination Deadline: March 01, 2022 To express recognition for and to promote outstanding effort and contributions in a doctoral dissertation in the field of interest to the IEEE Biometrics Council, the IEEE Biometrics Council Best Doctoral Dissertation Award was established in 2019. Any current member of IEEE [...]
The Biometrics Council is pleased to honor Dr. Akshay Agarwal with the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2021. Dr. Agarwal defended his dissertation, “Panoptic Defenses for Secure Computer Vision,” in December 2020 at IIIT-Delhi, India and was advised by Dr. Richa Singh and Dr. Mayank Vatsa. He received the Dean’s Award for Innovation, Research, and [...]
2021 IEEE Biometrics Council Best Doctoral Dissertation Award Nomination Deadline: June 07, 2021 To express recognition for, and promote outstanding effort and contributions in doctoral dissertation in the field of interest to the IEEE Biometrics Council, the IEEE Biometrics Council Best Doctoral Dissertation Award was established in 2019. Any current member of IEEE is eligible [...]
