Securing Social Identity in Mobile Platforms / Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications (PDF)

Biometrics Council VP on Education as of 1/1/2020, an Advisory Board Member (and Chair) of the IDGA Biometrics and Law Enforcement Conference (yearly conference at Washington DC), and a member of the Academic Research and Innovation Expert Group of the Biometrics Institute.



Panagiotis Karampelas holds a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK and a Master of Science degree from the Department of Informatics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with specialization in "High Performance Algorithms". He also holds a Bachelor degree in Mathematics from the same University majoring in Applied Mathematics. He has worked as an associate researcher in numerous European funded research projects in the area of Information Society Technologies Programme practicing his expertise in User Interface Design, Usability Evaluation and Application Development. He has also worked for several years as a user interface designer, usability expert and senior developer in several IT companies designing and implementing large-scale research and commercial information systems. Then he joined Hellenic American University as Assistant Professor teaching human computer interaction, programming, managing information systems and database management in the Graduate and Undergraduate programs. Currently, he is with the Department of Informatics and Computers, at the Hellenic Air Force Academy teaching courses to pilots and engineers. His areas of interest include Data Mining, Social Network Analysis, Counterterrorism Informatics, Programming, Mobile Application Development, Information Visualization, Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Neural Networks, Power Transmission and Distribution Systems. He has published a number of books and research articles in his major areas of interests in international journals and conferences. He serves as a Series Editor in the Book Series Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications and as an Associate Editor in the Social Network Analysis and Mining journal. He also serves as program committee member in a large number of scientific journals and international conferences in his fields of interests such as the European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC) and the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM).

Vishal M. Patel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining Hopkins, he was an A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE at Rutgers University and a member of the research faculty at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). His current research interests include signal processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition with applications in biometrics and imaging. He has received a number of awards including the 2016 ONR Young Investigator Award, the 2016 Jimmy Lin Award for Invention, A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award, Best Paper Award at IEEE AVSS 2017 & 2019, Best Paper Award at IEEE BTAS 2015, Honorable Mention Paper Award at IAPR ICB 2018, two Best Student Paper Awards at IAPR ICPR 2018, and Best Poster Awards at BTAS 2015 and 2016. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Biometrics Compendium, Pattern Recognition Journal, and serves on the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is serving as the Vice President (Conferences) of the IEEE Biometrics Council. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Pi Mu Epsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa.