Arun Ross
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Martin J Vanderploeg Endowed Professor
Biography
Arun Ross is the Martin J. Vanderploeg Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, and the Site Director of NSF’s Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR). He received the B.E. (Hons.) degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India, and the M.S. and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Michigan State University. He was in the faculty of West Virginia University between 2003 and 2012 where he received the Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award for excellence in creative research and the WVU Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award.
Ross is an internationally recognized expert in biometrics, privacy, computer vision and deep learning. He is a recipient of the JK Aggarwal Prize (2014) and the Young Biometrics Investigator Award (2013) from the International Association of Pattern Recognition for his contributions to the field of Pattern Recognition and Biometrics. He was designated a Kavli Fellow by the US National Academy of Sciences by virtue of his presentation at the 2006 Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposia. Ross is also a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.
Ross has advocated for the responsible use of biometrics in multiple forums including the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Identity and Security in Switzerland in 2018. He testified as an expert panelist in an event organized by the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee at the UN Headquarters in 2013. In June 2022, he testified at the US House Science, Space, and Technology Committee on the topic of Biometrics and Personal Privacy. He is a co-author of the monograph “Handbook of Multibiometrics” and the textbook “Introduction to Biometrics”.
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University 2003
- M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University 1999
- B.E. (Hons.), Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India 1996
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Awards
- Martin J. Vanderploeg Endowed Professor, Michigan State University (2022)
- Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award, College of Engineering, Michigan State University (2021)
- Withrow Teaching Excellence Award, Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University (2020)
- John and Eva Cillag Endowed Chair, Michigan State University (2019)
- IAPR Fellow (2018)
- International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) JK Aggarwal Prize (2014)
- International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Young Biometrics Investigator Award (2013)
- Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award, West Virginia University (2012)
- West Virginia University Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching (2011)
- Robert C. Byrd Associate Professorship, West Virginia University Research Corporation (2011)
- NSF CAREER Award (2007)
- Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (2006)
- Outstanding Researcher Award (2005-2006, 2006-2007), College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University
- Outstanding Teacher Award (2004-2005, 2007-2008, 2010-2011), College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University
- Young Researcher of the Year (2003-2004), College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University
- Best Student Paper Award for paper titled “HEFT: Homomorphically Encrypted Fusion of Biometric Templates” by Sperling, Ratha, Ross, Boddeti at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), (Abu Dhabi, UAE), October 2022.
- Best Paper Award for paper titled “An Explainable Attention-Guided Iris Presentation Attack Detector” by Chen and Ross at the Workshop on Explainable and Interpretable AI for Biometrics at WACV 2021, January 2021.
- Best Paper Award for paper titled “Spoofing PRNU Patterns of Iris Sensors while Preserving Iris Recognition” by Banerjee, Mirjalili and Ross at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA), (Hyderabad, India), January 2019.
- Best Paper Award for paper titled “DeepMasterPrints: Generating MasterPrints for Dictionary Attacks via Latent Variable Evolution" by Bontrager, Roy, Togelius, Memon and Ross at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), (Los Angeles, USA), October 2018.
- Best Paper Runner Up for paper titled “A Multi-Task Convolutional Neural Network for Joint Iris Detection and Presentation Attack Detection" by Chen and Ross at the 1st Workshop on Cross-Domain Biometric Recognition (CDBR) held in conjunction with the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), (Lake Tahoe, USA), March 2018.
- Best Paper Award (Silver) for paper titled “Semi-Adversarial Networks: Convolutional Autoencoders for Imparting Privacy to Face Images" by Mirjalili, Raschka, Namboodiri and Ross at the 11th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), (Gold Coast, Australia), February 2018.
- Best Paper Award (Runner Up) for paper titled “Spoofing Faces Using Makeup: An Investigative Study,” by Chen, Dantcheva, Swearingen and Ross at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA 2017), (New Delhi, India), February 2017.
- BTAS Five Year Highly Cited Paper Award for paper titled “Periocular Biometrics in the Visible Spectrum: A Feasibility Study," by Park, Ross and Jain (3rd IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), (Washington DC, USA), September 2009). Award given at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2014.
- Best Paper Award for paper titled “De-Duplication Errors in a Biometric System: An Investigative Study,” by DeCann and Ross at the IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), (Guangzhou, China), November 2013.
- Best Paper Award for paper titled “A Video-Based Hyper-Focal Imaging Method for Iris Recognition in the Visible Spectrum," by Tankasala et al. at the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, (Waltham, USA), November 2012.
- Best Student Paper Award (Gold) for paper titled “Mixing Fingerprints For Generating Virtual Identities,” by Othman and Ross at the IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), (Foz do Iguacu, Brazil), November/December 2011.
- Best Student Paper Award for paper titled “Decision-level Fusion Strategies for Correlated Biometric Classifiers,” by Veeramachaneni, Osadciw, Ross and Srinivas at the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Biometrics at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference, (Anchorage, USA), June 2008.
- Best Student Paper Award for paper titled “Performance Enhancement of 2D Face Recognition via Mosaicing,” by Singh, Vatsa, Ross and Noore at the 4th IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies (AutoID), (Buffalo, USA), October 2005.
- Best Paper Award (Technical) for paper titled “Human Response to Different Adaptive Optic Flow Stimuli,” by Odom, Ghude, Ross, Humble and VanScoy at the 11th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), (Ghent, Belgium), October 2005.
