National Centre for Biometric Studies: The People

Director: Professor Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner has a PhD in computer science from the Australian National University. He has worked in the fields of speech and speaker recognition, face recognition and behavioral biometrics since 1974. He was the principal research scientist of the TRUST Project from 1993 to 1996 and since 1996 has been the professor of computing at the University of Canberra. He is also currently the Head of the Discipline of Software Engineering in the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering. Michael’s current research includes face-voice recognition, liveness assurance, multimodal fusion and secure protocols, and forensic speaker recognition.

Deputy Director: Adjunct Professor Clive Summerfield

Clive Summerfield has a PhD in electronic engineering from the University of Sydney. He was the founder and CEO of Syrinx Speech Systems, a pioneer in the development and delivery of speech recognition solutions with deployments in Australia and the USA. Clive is also the founder and CEO of 3SH with a specific interest in speech technologies for security and authentication.

Researchers:

Dr Girija Chetty
Girija Chetty completed her PhD in combined face-voice authentication and fusion algorithms for multimodal recognition. She is a lecturer in Software Engineering in the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering. 

Dr Yuko Kinoshita
Yuko Kinoshita completed her PhD in forensic speaker recognition at the Australian National University in 2001. She is a lecturer in Japanese in the Faculty of Communication and International Studies

Dr Wanli Ma
Wanli Ma is a senior lecturer in Software Engineering in the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering. His current research area is in computer security algorithms and protocols.

Dr Dat Tran
Dat Tran completed his PhD in speech and speaker recognition technology in 2000. He is a senior lecturer in Software Engineering in the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering and has a special interest in the application of fuzzy algorithms in pattern recognition.

Ms Mireia Farrus
Mireia Farrus is a visiting PhD student from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. She is working on the utility of voice source parameters and prosodic features for speaker recognition.

Mr Bruce Comber
Bruce Comber is a research student in the area of pattern recognition methods for fingerprint identification.

Technical Support:

Joel Moss
Joel Moss completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering in 2004 with a final-year project implementing a telephone voice authentication system. He provides technical support to the Centre.