Julian Fierrez, PhD
 

ATVS - Biometric Recognition Group, B-203

C/ Francisco Tomas y Valiente, 11

Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

28049 Madrid SPAIN

Tel: +34 914973363, Fax: +34 914972235

SHORT BIO

I was born in 1978 and raised in Tomelloso (Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain). In 1996 I moved to Madrid and started my engineering studies. In 2001 and 2006 I received the Telecommunications Engineer degree (Ingeniero de Telecomunicación) and the PhD degree, respectively, both from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).

After collaborating for 1 year with the Image Processing Group (GTI), I joined the Speech and Signal Processing Area (ATVS) in early 2002. Since 2002, I held a Ph.D. scholarship from Comunidad de Madrid. From 2002 to 2004 I was with the Audio-Visual and Communications Engineering Department (DIAC, UPM), and since 2004 I am with the Computer Engineering Department (EPS), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Starting in early 2007, I will be a visiting researcher at the PRIP laboratory in Michigan State University for 2 years, under a Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship, which will be followed by a 1-year re-integration phase in UAM with ATVS.

My research interests are focused on signal and image processing, pattern recognition and biometric authentication (signature, fingerprint, voice, face, and fusion). I am actively involved in national and European projects (e.g., BioSec FP6 IP, Biosecure FP6 NoE) dealing with biometrics and I have published over 40 international contributions.

I was the recipient of the Best Poster Award at IAPR 4th Intl. Conf. on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2003), led the development of the UPM on-line signature verification system ranked 2nd at the 1st Intl. Signature Verification Competition (SVC 2004), participated in the development of the ATVS speaker recognition system ranked 3rd at the NIST 9th Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE 2004), received the Rosina Ribalta Award to the Best Spanish PhD Proposal in the areas of Information Technology and Communications by the Fundación Epson Ibérica in 2005, received the Motorola Best Student Paper Award at the IAPR 1st International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2006), and received the EBF European Biometric Industry Award 2006.