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Ajdenbaum_Gemalto RONNY BJONES
Security strategist - Microsoft EMEA

Ronny Bjones is working for Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, Africa) headquarters as security strategist.  He has 23 years experience in ICT, 17 of those in security.

Ronny published QuEST together with several industry specialists in the subject of electronic signatures.  The book is a comprehensive guide on how to implement Electronic Signatures solutions and can be downloaded from Microsoft.com.

Ronny oversees the whole areas of security but has a special interest in smart cards, PKI, cryptography and digital signatures.

Ronny is a board member of EEMA, an organisation providing guidance on e-Business.
Since ‘89 he is active in the field of Information Security doing large projects for the European Central banks, Police forces, big financial institutes, European Commission, etc.  
Ronny Bjones was one of the four founders of Utimaco Belgium, where he worked ten years as R&D director. Before Utimaco Ronny worked for a Belgian EFT specialist called Prodata and one of the first firms to specialize in cryptography in Europe called Cryptech. Ronny Bjones is an active speaker on conferences and acts as auditor for government sponsored projects.
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Ajdenbaum_Gemalto KIRSTEN BOCK
Lawyer - Independent Center for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein

Studied Law at the Universities of Kiel and Surrey, UK. Kirsten joined the Independent Center for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ICPP) in 2004. She is Coordinator for International e-Government Projects and in charge of the eTEN project RISER: Registry Information Service on European Residents.

She has lectured at the University of Applied Science for Administration and Services Altenholz and the University of Applied Science Kiel.
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RICK CHANDLER
Chairman - Wireless Group EEMA
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ERNESTO DAMIANI
Professor, department of Information Technology - University of Milan

Ernesto Damiani is a professor at the Department of Information Technology of the University of Milan. He has held visiting positions at George Mason University, VA ( USA), La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. His research interests include knowledge extraction and processing, secure mobile architecures, software process engineering and soft computing. On these topics he has filed international patents and published more than 80 refereed papers in international journals and conferences. He is the Vice-Chair of the IFIP WG on Web Semantics (WG 2.12) and of the IFIP WG on Open Source Software (WG 2.13), the Vice-Chair of the IEEE TC on Industrial Informatics, and a co-author of the book "Human-Centered e-Business" (Kluwer 2003).
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SABINE DELAITRE
Researcher - INRIA

Sabine Delaitre is a Computer Scientist with a Doctorate (since December 2000) in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management and Risk Management from the Ecole des Mines de Paris and in collaboration with the French Research organisation INRIA at Sophia Antipolis. During the period 2001-2004, she worked on a number of EU-funded projects in areas of computer network security, Knowledge Management for eGovernment, eBusiness and eLearning domains. In July 2004, she joined the IS Unit, IPTS, European Commission´s DG JRC. She is currently working on projects related to Cybersecurity activities (Future of Identity, Privacy, Security, Threat and Ambient Intelligence Space) and on FIDIS: Network of Excellence for the Future of IDentity in the Information Society.
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ANTHONY FERRARI
Security Evaluation Consultant - Trusted Labs

Anthony Ferrari is Security Evaluation Consultant at Trusted Labs, a Trusted Logic subsidiary specialized in security services and evaluation.

Since 2003, he performs security analysis in the domain of smart cards and mobile devices, as well
as the sensitive applications for payment and identity.
He also participates to the specification and the development of security test suites, in particular
he has been one of the main contributors on the Carte Vitale 2nd Generation (the French Health card) test suite.

Finally, he collaborates to european research activities about static analysis technics (Mobius) and
contract-based security mechanisms (S3MS) for mobile applications and services.
He holds a Master degree in Engineering, Real Time Embedded Systems and Mobile Applications, from Nice-Sophia Antipolis Polytechnic School, France.

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ROBERTO GARCIA
Assistant professor - University of Lleida

Dr. Roberto García (* 1976 in Barcelona) got his MSc. in computer science at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. He has been involved in Semantic Web research and development from the beginning of his career and since the discipline formally started. His MSc. thesis, completed the year 2000, developed a distributed knowledge management system using Semantic Web technologies. Then, he collaborated in the first steps of a web and interactive systems company before returning to the research world. In 2001 he got a research assistant position at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and carried out his research in Semantic Web based multimedia and digital rights management. These research activities concluded with his PhD thesis in 2006 about a Semantic Web approach to DRM. He is now an assistant professor at the Universitat de Lleida. He is also member of a human-computer interaction research group with more than 15 years of experience in the field, where he is combining his previous research lines with trying to get the Semantic Web in touch with "real-world" end-users.
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Dr. NIKOLAOS GEORGANTAS
Senior research scientist - INRIA

Dr. Nikolaos Georgantas received his degree in 1996 and his Ph.D. in 2001, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is currently senior research scientist of INRIA with the ARLES research group at INRIA-Rocquencourt, France. His research interests relate to distributed systems, middleware, ubiquitous computing systems and service & network architectures for telecommunication systems. He currently works on ad hoc system interoperability in service-oriented pervasive computing environments based on semantic technologies. He has been involved in a number of European projects (ACTS EXODUS, ACTS ACCORD, IST Ozone) and several industrial collaborations with the Greek and French industry. He is currently leading the work package related to Ambient Intelligence middleware for the networked home in the IST Amigo project.
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AHARON HAUPTMAN
Senior researcher, Interdisciplinary Center for Technology Analysis and Forecasting (ICTAF) - Tel-Aviv University

Aharon Hauptman holds M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Engineering from Tel-Aviv University (1986) and a B.Sc from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). His research in Engineering was in theoretical Hydrodynamics and Aerodynamics. Since 1988 he is a senior researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Technology Analysis and Forecasting (ICTAF) at Tel-Aviv University, specializing in technology foresight, technology assessment, knowledge management and evaluation of trends in emerging technologies. He has been involved in foresight activities within EU FP6 projects, e.g. emerging trends in nanobiotechnologies (within the network of excellence "Nano-to-Life") and the impact of new technologies on e-Government use (within the project ELOST).
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XAVIER HUYSMANS
Lawyer - IBBT IDEM

Xavier Huysmans (°1978) obtained his law degree at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2001. He spent the academic year 2000-2001 as an Erasmus exchange student at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg ( Germany). From September 2001 till December 2004, Xavier worked as lawyer at the Brussels bar (Daem & Cools, Janson Baugniet and Altius).

Xavier joined K.U.Leuven ICRI in January 2005, where he works as legal researcher in the field of Privacy and Data Protection.

Xavier has mainly worked on the topics of identity, identity management and e-government in several European and Belgian Flemish research projects. His main topic of interest lays on privacy-friendly identity management in eGovernment and beyond.

Since April 2007, besides his work in IBBT IDEM, Xavier heads the work package on eGovernment of the FIDIS project .

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VALERIE ISSARNY
Research director, Rocquencourt Research Unit - INRIA

Valerie Issarny got her PhD and her "habilitation a diriger des recherches" in computer science from the University of Rennes I in 1991 and 1997, respectively. She is currently "Directrice de recherche" at INRIA, working at the Rocquencourt research unit. Since 2002, she is the head of the INRIA ARLES research team, which investigates solutions to architecture-based development of ambient intelligence systems. Her research interests relate to distributed systems, software architectures, mobile systems and middleware, with a special focus on solutions enabling the ambient intelligence and/or pervasive computing visions. She has published numerous technical papers in the area of distributed systems and software engineering, and has been involved in a number of European and industrial projects. She is in particular currently coordinating the IST PLASTIC project on providing dependable and adaptive service technology for pervasive information and communication, and she is contributing to the IST Amigo project on ambient Intelligence for the networked home environment. She is further chairing the executive committee of the AIR&D consortium on Ambient Intelligence Research & Development.
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MADDY D. JANSE
Researcher, User System Interaction - Philips

Maddy D. Janse joined Philips in 1987 as a specialist in User System Interaction. In this function she worked at the CFT, at the IPO (Institute for Perception Research, a joint venture between Philips Research and the Technical University of Eindhoven) and Philips Research. Her main research interests are in the area of human factors, human perception and behaviour, user interface design for easy access and interaction for consumer systems. She was involved in the ACTS SMASH and STORit projects and in the ESPRIT project FOCUS. She has been working on methodologies for subjective evaluation of advisory systems for video content. She has been the project manager for the IST NexTV and ICE-CREAM projects, and the IBC Common demonstrator projects. She has been and is an active member in the SSA's AVISTA and NEMi. Currently she is the project coordinator for the IST Amigo integrated project.  Since 1998 she has been actively involved with the organisation of a two-year postgraduate Master's programme in User-System Interaction at the Eindhoven University of Technology, first as the curriculum manager and currently as the Managing Director. Before joining Philips she worked at the Unisys Company (then Sperry) in an Advanced Systems Group in Minneapolis (US) responsible for technology transfer between the company and the MCC organisation in the area of artificial intelligence, expert systems and advanced user interface technology (1983-1987). She has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology - Human Problem Solving (University of Minnesota, 1983) and a graduate degree in Food Chemistry and Technology (University of Wageningen, NL).

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TOM KEVENAAR
Engineer - Philips Research Labs

Tom Kevenaar received his MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and 1993, respectively, both from the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. After obtaining his PhD degree, he went to Hitachi Central Research Labs in Tokyo, Japan where he worked on numerical optimisation methods for the design of analogue circuits. In 1996 he joined Philips Research in the Netherlands to work on a wide range of simulation tools for the design of analogue and RF circuits. In 2001, still with Philips Research, he started working on low-power cryptographic algorithms and standards and a bit later joined the work on robust key extraction from and privacy protection of biometrics.
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FRANCOIS KOEUNE
Senior researcher, Cryptography - Catholic University of Louvain

François Koeune holds a PhD in cryptography from the Université catholique de Louvain, and a degree in company management.

He has been involved in many cryptography-related projects, both for private companies (DeLaRue, Alcatel, Mitsubishi,Belgacom,Safenet...) and governmental organizations worldwide (European Commission,Belgium, Japan...). He is currently working as a senior researcher at the Université catholique de Louvain, where he is mainly in charge of applied research projects set up and management.

François Koeune is also founder and CEO of K2Crypt, a consulting company offering high-level expertise in cryptography and security.
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MICHIEL KRAAK
Consultant - Biometric Expertise Group

Michiel Kraak is working as an independent consultant in the field of Innovation Management and specialises in biometrics as an associate of the Biometric Expertise Group.
In his definition, Innovation Management encompasses the business aspects of front-running and break-through technologies, including business planning en development, corporate structure and finance and intellectual property rights.

Currently he advises several members from the industry and the central and local government in The Netherlands on the business application of biometrics. Among them are the City Council of Amsterdam and the National Co-ordinator for Counterterrorism, where he acts as a programme manager.
Formerly, he has been the CEO of Dartagnan Biometric Solutions and a board member of Joh. Enschedé, a Dutch security printing company.

Dr. Kraak holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering of Delft University of Technology.

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BRUNO LEGEARD
Chief Technology Officer - LEIRIOS

Bruno Legeard is Chief Technology Officer of LEIRIOS and Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Franche-Comté ( France).  Dr. Legeard is co-author of the book "Practical Model-Based Testing - A tools approach" - Elsevier/2006, and of more than 50 journal papers and refereed conference publications in the domain of software validation, model-based testing and test automation. He started working on model-based testing in the mid 1990's and is one of the designers of the LEIRIOS Test Generator™ model-based testing tool. He has extensive experience in applying model-based testing to smart card software, e-transaction applications and information systems.
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SERGE MIRANDA
Professor, Dept of Computer Science - University of Nice Sophia Antipolis

Serge Miranda is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNSA), France, a position he has held since October 1983 after a PH-D in Toulouse University (France) and an MS at UCLA (Univ. of California, Los Angeles) with an INRIA research scholarship.

Serge Miranda has authored or coauthored more than 100 publications (60 in English), and published six successful French books on databases (15 Editions). The 6th one on object-relational data bases and related standards  was published by Dunod on October 2002. He has been invited in more than 60 countries to give research and strategic seminars on IT technology and data base systems.

He is presently director of (Master) MBDS the highest French University graduate degree devoted to data base systems, wireless Internet and enterprise computing with huge involvement of industry  partners at the world level (Oracle, Sun, Microsoft,.). MBDS he founded in 1992, is unique in Europe by its original framework of industry partnership based upon a tutored prototyping project of 500 hours as kernel of the curriculum. Every student receives industry scholarships to build prototypes under contracts. MBDS is fully supported by every DB vendor and IT world company along with multimedia and telcos companies since 2000. Five full time engineers sponsored by industry are working with the 24 graduate students and university faculty. MBDS is located in the science park of Sophia Antipolis (the European Telecom valley) which is the oldest in Europe. Several world-premiere in the area of wireless information services were performed at MBDS in the last 5 years: the first UMTS car with Mercedes in June 2002 demonstrated in Berlin, Monaco, Singapore (just google "MBDS" and "Mercedes"), NFC applications for hotels and rental cars in 2005 with Amadeus, Oracle, Siemens VDO and Renault, robots for elderly people management at home in 2006 with Robosoft, Microsoft, GDF, .., NFC payment applications in 2007 with Credit Agricole, IBM, Nokia and Philips...

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PIERRE PARADINAS
CNAM / INRIA

Pierre Paradinas is Professor at Cnam (Paris) and owned the "chair of Embedded and Mobile Systems".

He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Lille (France) in 1988 on smart cards and health application.

He was one of the Biocarte founders; this company was involved in the design, development and distribution of patient cards.

Pierre Paradinas joined Gemplus in 1989, and was successively researcher, internal technology audit, Advanced Product Manager and launched the card based on Data Base engine (CQL), Director of a common research lab with universities and National Research center (RD2P). He set up the Gemplus Software Research Lab in 1996.

He was also appointed technology partnership Director in 2001 and based in California until June 2003. He was the Gemplus representative at W3C, ISO/AFNOR, Open Card Framework and Java Community Process, co-editor of the part 7 of ISO7816, director of the European funded project Cascade project where the first 32-Risc microprocessor with Java Card was issued.

He owns 20 years of experience in smart cards technology and is deeply involved in the technology and research of smart cards, as program committee member (Chair of the CARDIS'04) and expert for European Commission and French government.

Nowday is Director of Technology Development at Inria: the national institute for research in computer science and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST).
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JEAN-JACQUES QUISQUATER
Professor, Laboratory for Microelectronics (DICE) - Catholic University of Louvain

Jean-Jacques Quisquater is professor of cryptography and multimedia security at the Laboratory for Microelectronics (DICE), Department of Electrical Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve,  Belgium, where he is responsible of many projects  related to smart cards, to secure protocols for communications, digital signatures,  payTV, protection of copyrights and security tools for electronic
commerce, including the most theoretical and mathematical aspects to the applied ones. 

He is responsible for the well-known group "UCL Crypto Group" (14 PhD students, 5 postdocs).
From September 2001 till September 2004, he was the  head (director) of the Microelectronics Laboratory at UCL (department of electricity).

He published about 170 scientific papers and 20 patents including the well-known GQ protocol used by millions of computers in the world (Netware). Since 1980 he is working in the field of the security for smart cards (first smart card with DES, first smart card including a coprocessor for RSA).   1970-1991 : scientist at the research laboratory of Philips ( Brussels, next Louvain-la-Neuve) . Head of the cryptologic research group (7 persons).
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ALBERTO SANNA
R&D and Business Development Manager, "e-Services for Life and Health" - Scientific Institute H San Raffaele

After graduating in Nuclear Engineering in 1991, I joined the Scientific Institute H San Raffaele in Milan where I'm currently the R&D and Business Development Manager of the " e-Services for Life and Health" Unit: in charge of the design and development of innovative health services, and related business models, based on personalized medicine and wellbeing.

I am currently Project Manager of several European Commission funded Projects such as:

FP5-IST, 12040 - DRIVE "Drug In Virtual Enterprise" : end-to-end integration of clinical and logistic services in the drug supply chain, from Manufacturer to Patient bedside based on Tag RFID.
FP6-IST, 507019 " PIPS "Personalised Information Platform for life & health Services" aimed to deliver personalized medicine-based services to promote healthier lifestyle and prevention in everyday life.
FP6-IST, 033506 " ANGEL "Advanced Network embedded platform as a Gateway to Enhance quality of Life": indoor ambient intelligence aimed at delivering personalized wellbeing services to home and workplace.

Apart from the above projects, am also Team Leader for PRIME "Privacy and Identity Management for Europe", another EC funded project: focuses on solutions for privacy-enhancing identity management that supports end-users' sovereignty over their private sphere and enterprises' privacy-compliant data processing.

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MICHAEL SETTON
Director - Cyberfab

Michael Setton graduated from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon in 1986 and obtained a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, in 1990. He has 11 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and was worldwide technology manager for a $200 million account of a US equipment vendor. He founded Cyberfab in 2001 at first for remote monitoring of production equipment using wireless communications and the Internet. Since 2003, the company has focused its development efforts on real time physiological measurements and communication using Bluetooth sensors and mobile phones for sports and wellness applications. Michael is interested in issues such as ultra low power, security, location aware web services and interoperability for sensor networks.

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DAVID SIMPLOT-RYL
Professor - The Fundamental Computer Science Laboratory of Lille (LIFL)

David SIMPLOT-RYL received the Graduate Engineer degree in computer science, automation, electronic and electrical engineering, a MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Lille, France, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In 1998, he joined the Fundamental Computer Science Laboratory of Lille (LIFL), France, where he is currently professor. He receives the Habilitation degree from University of Lille, France, in 2003. His research interests include sensor and mobile ad hoc networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded operating systems, smart objects, RFID technologies.

Recently, he mainly contributes to international standardization about RFID tag identification protocols in partnership with Gemplus and TagSys companies. He writes scientific papers, book chapters and patents and he received Best paper award at 9th Intl. Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC 2004). He is managing editor of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks: An International Journal (Old City Publishing).

He is currently associate editor of International Journal of Computers and Applications (Acta Press), International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (Inderscience) and International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (Taylor & Francis). He is also guest editor of several special issues: IEEE Network Magazine (IEEE Communication Society), Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier), International Journal on Wireless Mobile Computing (Inderscience), International Journal of Computers and Applications (Acta Press), International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE Computer Society).

He was also chair or co-chair for international workshops at IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing and Systems ICDCS 2004-2005 (WWAN 2004-2005), International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems ICPADS-2005 (SaNSO 2005) and 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems IEEE MASS 2005 (LOCAN 2005). He is program committee member at a number of international conferences and workshops, such as WLN 2003-5, IFIP MOBIS 2004-5, IEEE MASS 2004, WONS 2005-6, ICPADS-2005, UISW 2005, MED-HOC-NET 2005, AINA 2006 and RTNS'2006.

He is scientific leader of the POPS research group, common project of LIFL/CNRS and INRIA Futurs. He is scientific coordinator of the national CNRS project RECAP on sensor and self-organizing networks.

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MAX SNIJDER
Director - Biometric Expertise Group

Max Snijder is one of the leading independent biometrics experts in Europe. His practical experience and integrated approach has lead to an overall view on the biometrics business. This includes strategic aspects of biometrics deployments (like costs/benefits, risk analysis and business models), as well as issues on functional requirements, use cases and processes. In the field of testing and certification of biometric equipment and systems he plays an important role in the MTIT Project on finger print template interoperability testing and in the setting up of an European network of testing and certification organizations.

After a career as entrepreneur in the not-for-profit sector Max Snijder became one of the pioneers of biometrics in the Netherlands. After several years of extensive experience with numerous biometric projects like Privium at Schiphol Airport, he founded the Biometric Expertise Group in 2004 with the purpose of bringing together the fragmented knowledge and experience in the field of biometrics. His network of experts cover all relevant areas of biometrics, from strategic to operational, from legal to technical.

As an expert himself he is involved in several projects and consortia, ranging from passports and visa to large scale watch list applications and physical access control. Today, Max Snijder is involved in the key areas of the biometrics business. On European level he is involved in numerous workshops, committees and expert groups. As independent consultant he is frequently being hired to review, supervise and monitor projects that involve biometrics. He works for several European member states' governments as well as for the European Commission. Max Snijder is member of several high level bodies, like the Consortium on Security and Technology of the EastWest Institute, The Porvoo Group, the CEN Working Group on Integrated Border Management, CEN Biometric Focus Group. He is Founding Member of the IFIP Working Group on Identity Management. For conferences, seminars and exhibitions he frequently invited to support in setting up the program. As such he is member of the scientific committee of the World eID Conference. He is frequently being invited himself to speak and chair at strategic meetings, such as the Security Defense Agenda, the Dutch Innovation Platform, which is chaired by the Dutch Prime Minister, and at conferences such as Biometrics 2006, Homeland Security Europe 2006/2007, Advanced ID Systems Europe 2007, the Global Biometrics Summit 2006 and many others. Max Snijder is member of the European Privacy Institute Initiative.

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MASSIMO TISTARELLI
Professor, department of Architecture and Planning - University of Sassari

Massimo Tistarelli was born on November 11, 1962 in Genoa , Italy . He received a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy in 1987 and the Phd in Computer Science and Robotics in 1991 from the same university. Since 1986 he has been involved as project coordinator and task manager in several projects on computer vision and image analysis funded by the European Community.
During 1986, 1991 and 1996 he has been visiting the Department of Computer Science, Trinity College , Dublin Ireland , developing methodologies aimed at the investigation of low-level visual processes. In 1989 he was a visiting scientist at Thinking Machines Co. and MIT in Cambridge , Massachusetts , developing parallel algorithms for dynamic image processing on the Connection Machine system. Since 1994 he has been the director of the Computer Vision Laboratory at the Department of Communication, Computer and Systems Science of the University of Genoa , leading several national and European projects on computer vision applications and image-based biometrics.
His main research interests cover biological and artificial vision (particularly in the area of recognition and dynamic scene analysis), biometrics, robotic navigation and visuo-motor coordination. He is author of more than 70 papers in scientific conferences andinternational journals.

In 2000 he was the chairman for the International workshop on "Advances in Facial Image Analysis and Recognition Technology" and in 2002 for the International workshop on "Biometric Authentication".
He was associate editor for the journal Image and Vision Computing. He is the director for the International Summer School for Advanced Studies in Biometrics held in Alghero , Italy, in 2003, 2005 and 2006.

He is member of the program committee in severeal international conferences on computer vision and image analysis.  

Massimo Tistarelli is currently Full Professor in Computer Science at the Department of Architecture and Planning at the University of Sassari, Italy.
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RAYMOND VELDHUIS
Associate professor - Twente University

Raymond Veldhuis was born in The Netherlands in 1955. He received his engineer degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981 from the University of Twente, The Netherlands. From 1982 until 1992 he worked as a researcher at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven in various areas of digital signal processing, such as audio and video signal restoration and audio source coding. In 1988 he received the PhD degree from Nijmegen University on a thesis entitled Adaptive Restoration of Lost Samples in Discrete-Time Signals and Digital Images. From 1992 until 2001 he worked at the IPO ( Institute of Perception Research) Eindhoven in speech signal processing and speech synthesis. From 1998 until 2001 he was programme manager of the Spoken Language Interfaces research programme.

He is now an associate professor at Twente University, working in the fields of biometrics and signal processing and leading a team of 11 researchers in this area. The team is involved in 8 national and international projects in the field of biometrics.

Raymond Veldhuis has published over 90 papers in international conferences and journals and has 20 patents in the field of sound, image and speech processing. He is also co-author of the book An Introduction to Source Coding, Prentice Hall, and author of the book Restoration of Lost Samples in Digital Signals, Prentice Hall. His expertise involves digital signal processing for audio, images and speech; statistical pattern recognition and biometrics.

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ERIC VETILLARD
CTO - Trusted Labs

Eric Vetillard is the CTO of Trusted Labs, a spin-off from Trusted Logic that provides security-related services. He is in particular responsible for the security evaluation of embedded Java platforms and applications (Java Card, J2ME).
Before that, he has been Chief Architect at Trusted Logic, and Java Architect at Gemplus. He has been an active member of the Java Card Forum since its inception in 1997, and he has contributed to all Java Card specifications. Eric chairs the Java Card Forum's Technical Committee since the end of 2006.
Eric Vetillard is a regular speaker at JavaOne, eSmart, and other technical conferences. He holds a M.S. from Florida State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Marseille.
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