Our NEXBIS team has received the NSF Award, โThe Present and Accounted For,โ in support of our solution addressing one of NSFโs most timely and pressing technology needs in contactless and privacy-preserving biometrics. This is a well-deserved recognition of the impactful and groundbreaking work led by Entrepreneurial Lead Bharath Krishnamurthy, Technical Lead Dr. Ajita Rattani, and Industrial Mentor Terry Chapas.
Dr. Rattani served as the mentor at the Doctoral Consortium as a part of IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2025 (Osaka, Japan).
Dr. Rattani is giving keynote in transformative 12-day Online Faculty Development Programme on โ๐๐ป๐ป๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ: ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐น๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ ๐, ๐๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐โ, jointly organized by the CSE Department of National Institute of Technology Delhi and Electronics and ICT Academy, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, under the prestigious Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology initiative by the Government of India. Dates: September 11โ24, 2025 | Time: 5:30 PM โ 8:30 PM (Tentative)
Our entire research group gathered for a lively team lunch, enjoying good food and great conversations while celebrating Parth Bhanderi's farewell party and wishing him the best for his next chapter.
Dr. Rattani organized a workshop titled "Synthetic Realities and Biometric Security: Advances in Forensic Analysis and Threat Mitigation" at BMVC, Glasgow, UK, 2024.
Dr. Rattani moderated a panel on "Bridging Past & Future: Insights & Stories from CSE Alumni" at The UNT Department of Computer Science & Engineering, in association with
Women in Computing - UNT,
Society of Women Engineers - UNT, and
ACM-W: ACMs Women in Computing - UNT.
Present: Bridging Past & Future: Insights & Stories from CSE Alumni
Dr. Rattani served as diversity, equity and inclusion chair at IEEE IJCB 2023!
Dr. Rattani served as panelist at Women in Engineering (WiE) at University of North Texas IFIP IoT.
VCBSL research group members Vinaya Sree and Madhurika participated in Research Day poster competition and presented their research on Deepfakes and Natural Disaster Assessment on Research day at UNT with their posters.
Talk on the impact of Deep Fakes to Older at Deep Fake Moon Light Event at Wichita State University. Read the feature story in the Wichita Business Journal here
Dr. Rattani is invited as speaker (panelist) at FedID conference in Georgia,Atlanta to talk on Fairness of AI. Read more about this
Dr. Rattani delivered a talk on "Bias and Fairness in AI: An Application to Biometrics" at IEEE SPS School on Advances in Biometrics organized by Computer Vision and Biometrics Laboratory at IIIT Allahabad.
Dr. Rattani organized a workshop titled "Understanding and Mitigating Bias of Biometrics System" at ICPR, Montreal, 2022.
Talk on Bias and Fairness of Biometrics System to Researchers at Dept. of CSE, IIITD&M Kancheepuram, India
Facial recognition is a growing business. But the technology has drawbacks. Dr. Rattani has won a grant to research a better alternative. Researcher Dr. Rattani working on alternative to facial recognition technology.
NSF Award for development of demographically Fair Ocular based recognition system.
