Prof Sébastien Marcel ( Google Scholar -- IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow) received the Ph.D. degree in signal processing from Université de Rennes I in France (2000) at CNET, the research center of France Telecom (now Orange Labs). He is currently interested in signal processing, pattern recognition and machine/deep learning (aka AI) with a focus on biometrics security and privacy. He is a senior researcher at the Idiap Research Institute, where he heads the Biometrics Security and Privacy group and conducts research on face recognition, speaker recognition, vein recognition, attack detection (presentation attacks, morphing attacks, deepfakes) and template protection. The Biometrics Security and Privacy group prioritises reproducibility in research and make freely available source code and models. He is Professor at the Université de Lausanne (UNIL) where he is teaching a Biometrics course at the well-known School of Criminal Justice "Ecole des sciences criminelles (ESC)" in the Master program. He was lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he was teaching on “Fundamentals in Statistical Pattern Recognition” at the Doctoral School (EDEE). He was VP Conferences of the IEEE Biometrics Council, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (TBIOM), Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL). He was also a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security Special Issue on “Biometric Spoofing and Countermeasures”, and Co-editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue on “Biometric Security and Privacy”. He is the lead co-editor of the “Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing” (Editions 1, 2 and 3). He was the principal investigator of international research projects including MOBIO (EU FP7 Mobile Biometry), TABULA RASA (EU FP7 Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks) and BEAT (EU FP7 Biometrics Evaluation and Testing). Finally he is the Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing ( X ) at Idiap.

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