Keynote Speakers
Stephanie Schuckers
Dr. Stephanie Schuckers is the Bank of America Distinguished Professor in Computing & Informatics at University of North Caroline (UNC) – Charlotte. She also serves as the Director of the Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR), a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, led by Clarkson University. She received her doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan. Professor Schuckers research focuses on processing and interpreting signals which arise from the human body. Her work is funded from various sources, including National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, and private industry, among others. She has started her own business, testified for US Congress, and has over 50 journal publications as well as over 100 other academic publications. She was named IEEE Fellow in 2023, serves as a Board of Directors for the Biometrics Institute, and is President-Elect for the IEEE Biometrics Council. She has volunteered for numerous organizations including the IEEE Biometrics Council and FIDO Alliance.
Jonathan Gratch
Jonathan Gratch is a Research Full Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at the University of Southern California (USC) and Director for Virtual Human Research at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1995. Dr. Gratch’s research focuses on computational models of human cognitive and social processes, especially emotion, and explores these models’ potential to advance psychological theory and shape human-machine interaction. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief (retired) of IEEE’s Transactions on Affective Computing, Associate Editor for Affective Science, Emotion Review, and former President of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC). He is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAC, and the Cognitive Science Society.
Kevin Bowyer
Kevin Bowyer is the Schubmehl-Prein Family Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Bowyer was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science “for distinguished contributions to the field of computer vision and pattern recognition, biometrics, object recognition and data science”, a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to algorithms for recognizing objects in images”, and a Fellow of the IAPR “for contributions to computer vision, pattern recognition and biometrics”. He has received a Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society “for pioneering contributions to the science and engineering of biometrics”, and IEEE Biometrics Council’s Meritorious Service Award and Leadership Award. Professor Bowyer has served as Editor-In-Chief of both the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science and the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Professor Bowyer has served as General Chair or Program Chair of conferences such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, and Face and Gesture Recognition, and is one of the founding General Chairs of the International Joint Conference on Biometrics conference series.