|
About Shimon
Shimon Modi is a member of the Biometric Standards, Performance and Assurance Laboratory in the Department of Industrial Technology, and has been involved in biometrics for over three years. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Technology and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics at Purdue University. He has a Master's degree in Technology with specialization in Information Security at Purdue's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.
Mr. Modi is actively involved in biometric standards, both at the national and international level. Mr. Modi represents Purdue University as a voting member on INCITS M1 Biometrics standards committee. He also serves as a technical expert on the US national body for the WG3 Data Interchange Formats working group within the ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC37 committee on Biometrics.
Mr. Modi’s research interests reside in application of biometric systems in e-authentication, statistical analysis of performance of biometric systems, interoperability of biometrics systems, enterprise level information security, and standards development. Mr. Modi conducted his Master’s thesis in feasibility testing of using keystroke dynamics for spontaneous password verification. Mr. Modi has co-written and contributed to 3 published books, published 6 conference proceedings, and been involved in developing a graduate level course targeted at security professionals.
Biometrics Standards Activities
Current Research Interests
Previous Research Projects
- Biometrics in the Manufacturing Enviornment
- Equine Iris Recognition
Collaborative research examining equine eye features for recognition. Extracting equine eye features, development of classification algorithms, and feasibility testing are the main research goals.
- Biometric Storage/Matching Architecture Security
This research was conducted for NIST and involved examination of architecture and interoperability of current biometric systems. The research also analyzed the current methodologies for revocation of a compromised biometric identifier.
Work Experience
US Biometrics - Biometrics Research Intern. Designed and analyzed performance tests for biometric system interoperability. The tests focused on integrating a different accquisition subsytem into the existing security infrastructure. Also responsible for requirements analysis for creating standards compliant physical access and logical access biometrics system. Standards included FIPS-201, BioAPI, and INCITS 378-2004.
Awards and Fellowships
Recipient of Ross Fellowship 2005-2006
M.S. Thesis
 |
Keystroke Dynamics Verification Using Spontaneous Password |
Book Chapters
 |
Elliott, S., Kukula, E., & Modi,
S. (2007). Issues Involving the Human Biometric Sensor
Interface. In S. Yanushkevich, P. Wang, &
S. Srihari (Eds.),
Image Pattern Recognition: Synthesis and
Analysis in Biometrics. World Scientific Publishers.
Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence vol.
67. pp. 339-364 |
Journal Articles
 |
Bhargav-Spantzel, A., Modi, S.K., Bertino, E., Elliott, S. J., Young, M., & Squicciarini, A. C. (2007). Privacy Preserving Multi-Factor Authentication with Biometrics. Journal of Computer Science.
|
Conference Proceedings
| |
Modi, S. K., Elliott, S. J., & Kim, H. (2007, December 16-20). Performance Analysis for Multi Sensor Fingerprint Recognition System. Paper presented at the ICISS 2007, New Delhi, India. |
| |
Modi, S.K., Elliott, S. J., Kim, H., & Whetstone, J. (2007, June 7-8). Impact of Age Groups on Fingerprint
Recognition Performance. Paper presented at the AutoID 2007, IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, Alghero, Italy. |
| |
Modi, S. K., and Elliott, S. J., Impact of Image Quality on Performance: Comparison of Young and Elderly Fingerprints,
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC 2006), K. Sirlantzis (Ed.), pp. 449-454, 2006 |
| |
Modi, S. K., & Elliott, S. J. (2006). Keystroke Dynamics Verification Using a Spontaneously Generated Password. Proceedings of the 40th Annual International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST) (pp. 116-121). Lexington, U.S.A |
| |
Modi, S. K., & Elliott, S. J. (2006, March). Graduate Course Development Focusing on Security Issues for Professionals Working in the Manufacturing Industry. Proceedings of the World Congress on Computer Science, Engineering and Technology Education (WCCSETE). Santos, Brazil |
| |
Modi, S. K., & Elliott, S. J., (2005). Securing the manufacturing environment using biometrics, Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST) (pp. 275-278). Las Palmas de G. C., Spain. |
Locally Published Textbooks
| |
Introduction to Biometric Technology |
| |
Securing the Manufacturing Environment Using Biometric Technologies |
Standards Contributions
| |
M1/07-0207 March 21, 2007 [AHBEA/M1.2] Base document BioAPI Java 1829-D |
| |
M1/06-0112 February 7, 2006 [AHBEA/M1.4] First Working Draft – Study Report on Biometrics in E-Authentication |
| |
M1/06-0086 February 6, 2006 [AHBEA/M1.4] Contribution from the Threat Model subgroup to the AHGBEA as input to the first working draft report |
| |
M1/06-0085 February 6, 2006 [AHBEA/M1.4] Contribution from the Architecture subgroup to the AHGBEA as input to the first working draft report |
|
M1/06-0084 February 6, 2006 [AHBEA/M1.4] Contribution from the Peer Review subgroup to the AHGBEA as input to the first working draft report |
| |
M1/05-0772 November 28, 2005 [AHGBEA/M1.4] Base document for the Study Report on Biometrics in E-Authentication |
| |
M1/05-0758 November 14, 2005 [AHGBEA/M1.4] Purdue technical contribution to AHGBEA in response to M1/05-0714 |
| |
M1/05-0757 November 14, 2005 [AHGBEA/M1.4] Purdue technical contribution to AHGBEA on the bibliography |
|
M1/05-0756 November 14, 2005 [AHGBEA/M1.4] Purdue technical contribution to AHGBEA (Biometric Identifier Revocation and System Security Issues) |
|
M1/05-0516 September 7, 2005 [AHGBEA/M1.4] SAFLINK/Purdue Contribution to the AHGBEA on a Bibliography |
|
M1/05-0515 September 7, 2005 [AHGBEA/M1.4] SAFLINK/Purdue Contribution to the AHGBEA on a Threat Model Framework |
|
M1/05-0514 September 7, 2005 [AHGBEA/M1.4] SAFLINK Corporation and Purdue University Contribution to AHGBEA Strawman Report Outline (with annotations) |
Posters
| |
Modi, S. K., Harriger, B. C., Elliott, S. J., Young, M. R., (2005). Securing the Manufacturing Environment using Biometrics , Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security "Security in Motion" Symposium, West Lafayette, IN. |
|
