Biometric Standards, Performance, and Assurance Laboratory

Department of Industrial Technology

Industrial Advisory Board

In order to stay in tune to industry and government needs, the lab has appointed several professionals from their respective areas to serve on the Industrial Advisory Board.

Jim Cambier, Ph.D.,
Chief Technology Officer,
Iridian Technologies

Dr. Jim Cambier is the Vice President for Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer for Iridian Technologies, Inc., in Moorestown, NJ. Dr. Cambier's responsibilities include the management of the company's technical operations including research, as well as the development of software products that enable the deployment of iris recognition in commercial applications.

Rick Lazarick,
Computer Science Corporation

Rick Lazarick serves as the Chief Technologist of Identity Labs at the Computer Sciences Corporation. Prior to joing CSC, he served for eight years as an engineer for the US Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Research, and Development Laboratory. He has over 34 years experience in the aviation industry.

Fernando Podio,
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Fernando L. Podio is a member of the Computer Security Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has worked at NIST since 1983. He has been involved in different aspects of IT development, measurements, and standards for over twenty-five years. For the past five years he has been involved inbiometrics research and standardization. He is currently responsible for the NIST Program on Accelerating the Development of Critical Biometric Standards & Associated Conformity Assessment Activities. Before his work in biometrics began, he conducted research and testing of intelligent data storage devices, sequential data storage media and optical digital data disks. He chairs the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Technical Committee M1, Biometrics, and is the Chairman of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1) Subcommittee 37 (SC 37) - Biometrics. He also co-chairs the Biometric Consortium (BC) which is an organization of over one thousand members from Government, industry, academia. Thirty-eight countries are represented within its membership. He has shared a 2003 group US Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Federal Service for “development of standards, testing methodology, and metrics for biometric technologies to be used for securing the Nation’s borders”. He has also received the InterNational Committee for IT Standards Gene Milligan Award in recognition of his leadership work in biometrics standards. His involvement in biometrics also led to two other awards, NIST’s 2000 William P. Slichter Award for “Outstanding Achievement in building or strengthening ties between NIST and industry” and a Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer award for technology transfer of biometric specifications to industry.

Dale Setlak,
Authentec

Dale Setlak co-founded the AuthenTec Company and is now the Vice President and Chief Technical Officer. In this role, Mr. Setlak is focused on the research for future AuthenTec products. Mr. Setlak was the original Chief Systems Architect for FingerLoc and is the source ofmany of the concepts underlying the Company's patents. Mr. Setlak brings 25 years of research and development experience to AuthenTec. Prior to joining the original FingerLoc team in 1996, Mr. Setlak served as Senior Principle Engineer with Harris' Electronic Systems Sector. Prior to joining Harris in 1990, Mr. Setlak was Senior Systems Architect for factory automation at CTG-Scientific Systems Services and was the Senior Instrumentation Engineer on research and advanced power plant control systems at Babcock and Wilcox. Mr. Setlak holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University and a MS in Computer Engineering fromFlorida Institute of Technology.

Colin Soutar, Ph.D.,
Chief Technology Officer,
Bioscript

Dr. Colin Soutar joined Bioscrypt Inc. in 1994 and currently holds the title of Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President for Research & Development. Colin's primaryresponsibilities at Bioscrypt include the core biometric technology, such as matching algorithmdevelopment, and system performance, interoperability and security. Colin is also responsible for the acquisition, development and maintenance of Bioscrypt core intellectual property. Colin's has served in many Industry and Standards development positions, such as the Steering Committee for BioAPI, Vice Chair for INCITS M1, ISO SC37-SC27 Liason Officer, CATA Alliance Chief Technology Adviser and a technical contributor to IBIA. Prior to joining Bioscrypt, Colin worked on optical correlation systems at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Colin received his Ph.D. in physics from Dundee Institute of Technology inScotland in 1992. Colin is the author of over twenty scientific publications, several patents, and two book chapters.

Samir Tamer,
Principal Scientist,
Recognition Systems

Samir Tamer is a Principal Scienctist at Recognition Systems Inc., a supplier of hand geometry Access Control and Time & Attendance devices. Over 75,000 RSI handreaders have been deployed since the company’s inception in 1986 in such diverse locations as airports, banks, hospitals, and manufacturing floors. Mr. Tamer is a representative to the INCITS M1 Technical Committee on Biometrics, serving on the subcommittees for Biometric Data Interchange Formats and Biometric Performance Testing & Reporting. Samir Tamer received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University.

Cathy Tilton,
Vice President, Standards and Emerging Technology,
Daon

Cathy Tilton is the Vice President, Standards and Emerging Technology, an authority on biometric standards, serving as Chair of the BioAPI Consortium, International Representative of INCITS M1 Technical Committee on Biometrics (serving as US head of delegation to the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 subcommittee on biometrics), chair of the INCITS Ad Hoc Group studying integration of biometrics with the government smart card, and contributing member of ANSI X9F4, the Biometric Consortium, the International Biometric Industry Association (IBIA), and the editorial team for the Common Biometric Exchange File Format. She has over 20 years of engineering and management experience. Prior to SAFLINK, Tilton was a systems engineering department manager at Unisys, where she was involved with large-scale electronic defense systems development. During her last assignment at Unisys, she led the systems engineering effort for the FBI Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) program (Phase II). Tilton has a BS in nuclear engineering from Mississippi State and an MS in systems engineering from Virginia Tech.