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Biometric Standards, Performance, and Assurance LaboratoryDepartment of Industrial Technology |
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Partnerships and Related LinksWe have a number of partnerships with both academic partners at Purdue University,faculty at other institutions, and with industry. Our industrial advisory board is made up with biometric technical experts from a number of areas, and they continue to provide us with opportunities. Furthermore, our partnerships with academia and industry fuel the research agenda in the lab, and provide us with equipment that enables the core mission of the lab – teaching and researching biometrics, to be undertaken. We are a partner lab within the Center for Education and Research in Information Security and Assurance (CERIAS) at Purdue University, and have participated in their annual symposium for the past three years. The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) is currently viewed as one of the world's leading centers for research and education in areas of information security that are crucial to the protection of critical computing and communication infrastructure. CERIAS is unique among such national centers in its multidisciplinary approach to the problems, ranging from purely technical issues (e.g., intrusion detection, network security, etc) to ethical, legal, educational, communicational, linguistic, and economic issues, and the subtle interactions and dependencies among them. The research conducted through CERIAS includes faculty from six different schools and 12 departments across campus. The eight areas below summarize the research focus areas for the faculty involved with CERIAS:
Research conducted with CERIAS centers around the role of Biometrics in E-Authentication, Biometrics and Federated Systems, and working on creating a java based BioAPI framework. Other faculty within the College of Technology (non CERIAS faculty) that the lab partners with includes Prof. Bradley Harriger in the Computer and Integrated Manufacturing Technology (CIMT) department. CIMT focuses on automated manufacturing and materials handling using computers to design and manufacture products or in process and quality control. CIMT students learn to take individual islands of manufacturing automation and link them together to achieve the ultimate efficiency of an organization's manufacturing resources. The CIMT lab has partnered with the Biometrics lab on the Manufacturing Security initiative. We are also using equipment in the Manufacturing Center to complete research on repeatability of signatures. Over the past three years we have partnered with the Department of Aviation Technology faculty (Dr. Gary Eiff and Dr. Denver Lopp) on a number of projects related to biometrics and aviation security. This semester we are working with Prof. Renee Hendricks on a face recognition project at the airport. More recently, we have teamed up with faculty in the College of Agriculture's Youth Development and Agricultural Education for retinal identification for 4-H. We also collaborate with other faculty outside of Purdue University for example, Dr. Patrick Duparcq at Northwestern University, and Dr. Hakil Kim at INHA University. We interact with other members of the biometrics community, through our work in biometric standards. If you would like to work with the lab on any projects, please email Dr. Elliott at elliott@purdue.edu. |