About
Hatef is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Biometrics Security and Privacy Group, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2024, and was a Research Assistant during his PhD at Idiap Research Institute, where he received H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship for his doctoral program. Prior to his PhD, he received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 2018, and the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering from the University of Kashan, Iran, in 2016. During his Ph.D., Hatef also spent 6 months as a visiting scholar with the Biometrics and Internet Security Research Group at Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany. He was the recipient of the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) Research Award 2023 and the IEEE Biometrics Council Best Doctoral Dissertation Award 2025. His research interests include but are not limited to machine learning, computer vision, generative models, foundation models, biometrics, AI safety, and data privacy. He is an IEEE Senior Member and also an ELLIS Member.
Selected publications
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ICCVW2025
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ICLR2025
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TPAMI2023
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NeurIPS2023
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TIFS2023
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T-BIOM2024
News
- Sep 2026I gave a tutorial on “Foundation and Multimodal Large Language Models for Biometrics” at IJCB 2026 link
- Aug 2026We published the pre-print of our new paper, “Foundation and Multimodal Large Language Models for Face Presentation and Morph Attack Detection” pdf
- Jun 2026I am co-organising the ECCV 2026 Workshop on Foundation and Generative Models in Biometrics.
- Mar 2026Our paper on Demographic Fairness in Multimodal LLMs was accepted in CVPR 2026 Workshops. pdf
- Jan 2026I am co-organising the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Foundation and Generative Models in Biometrics.
- Jan 2026I am co-organising a special session on Foundation & Generative Models for Face and Gesture Recognition at FG 2026.
- Jan 2026I contributed to two chapters in the Handbook of Biometric Template Protection Chapter 1 Chapter 2
- Dec 2025Our paper was accepted in IEEE-TIFS pdf
- Dec 2025I became an ELLIS Member.
- Nov 2025I was a panelist in the EAB Council of Wisdom on the topic of Biometric Template Protection.
- Oct 2025I gave a guest lecture in CSE 902: “Selected Topics in Recognition by Machine” course at Michigan State University details
- Sep 2025I received the IEEE Biometrics Council Best Doctoral Dissertation Award.
- Aug 2025Our survey paper, “Foundation Models and Biometrics: A Survey and Outlook”, is accepted in IEEE-TIFS pdf
- Jul 2025Our paper was accepted in ICCV 2025 Workshops, “FaceLLM: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Face Understanding” pdf
- May 2025Our paper was accepted in ICML 2025 pdf
- May 2025I am co-organising the ICCV 2025 Workshop on Foundation and Generative Models in Biometrics.
- Mar 2025We published the pre-print of our new paper, “Foundation Models and Biometrics: A Survey and Outlook” pdf
- Feb 2025We are organising the “1st International Workshop on Foundation, Multimodal Large Language and Generative Models for Face and Gesture Recognition” at FG 2025 workshop
- Jan 2025Our paper was accepted in ICLR 2025 pdf
- Dec 2024I will be attending NeurIPS 2024 to present our 3 papers on synthetic data, membership inference attacks, and backdoor attacks.
- Nov 2024I will give an invited keynote talk in the Synthetic Realities and Biometric Security Workshop at BMVC 2024.
- Nov 2024Our paper was accepted in IEEE-Access pdf
- Sep 2024I defended my PhD and graduated from EPFL PhD thesis
- Jul 2024Our paper was accepted in IEEE-Access pdf
- Jun 2024We ranked first in the CVPR 2024 FRCSyn Challenge certificate challenge summary paper
- May 2024I will give an invited keynote talk in the Synthetic Data for Face and Gesture Analysis Workshop at FG 2024.
- Mar 2024Our paper was accepted in IEEE-TIFS pdf
- Mar 2024Our paper was accepted at FG 2024 pdf
- Dec 2023I was interviewed, as Researcher on the Rise, by the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter link, pp. 28–31
- Nov 2023We are organising SDFR competition at FG 2024.
- Sep 2023I received the EAB Research Award 2023.
- Sep 2023Our paper was accepted at NeurIPS 2023 pdf
- Sep 2023Our paper was accepted at TPAMI project page
Contact
- hatef.otroshi@idiap.ch
- Phone
- +41 27 721 74 51
- Office
- CP207.1-1
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