Biometrics, Data Forensics, and Security

1. TAC Name:
   Biometrics, Data Forensics, and Security 
   
   
2. TAC Acronym:
   BForSec
   
   
3. TAC Technical Area:
   The BForSec TAC focuses on multimedia security, data forensics, hashing, watermarking, covert communications (steganography and steganalysis), applied cryptography, biometric recognition, biometric forensics, video surveillance, physical layer security, network security, hardware security, data privacy with its different declinations in the field of biometrics, social networks, cloud, and big data, de-identification methodologies.
   
   
4. TAC Chair and Co-Chair:
   
   
   Chair
   Paulo Lobato Correia
   Instituto de Telecomunicações
   Instituto Superior Técnico
   Torre Norte, 10-15
   049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
   email: paulo.correia at lx.it.pt
   URL: https://www.it.pt/Members/Index/390

   
   
   Vice-Chair:
   Andreas Uhl
   Department of Computer Sciences
   Universität Salzburg
   Jakob-Haringerstr. 2
   A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
   Tel: +43 (0)662 8044 6303
   uhl at cosy.sbg.ac.at

   
   
   
   
5. TAC membership:
   
   

   Name	Affiliation	Email	Term
   Irene Amerini	Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	amerini at diag.uniroma1.it	2019 - 2021
   Giulia Boato	University of Trento, Italy	giulia.boato at unitn.it	2018 - 2020
   Felix Balado	University College Dublin, Ireland	felix at ucd.ie	2019 - 2021
   Patrizio Campisi	Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy	patrizio.campisi at uniroma3.it	2018 - 2020
   Luca Caviglione	National Research Council of Italy	luca.caviglione at ge.issia.cnr.it	2018 - 2020
   Paulo Lobato Correia	Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	paulo.correia at lx.it.pt	2018 - 2020 (Chair)
   Tanya Ignatenko	GN Hearing A/S	t.ignatenko at IEEE.ORG	2016 - 2021
   Jörg Keller	FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany	joerg.keller at fernuni-hagen.de	2018 - 2020
   Emanuele Maiorana	Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy	emanuele.maiorana at uniroma3.it	2016 - 2021
   Wojciech Mazurczyk	Warsaw University of Technology, Poland	wmazurcz at elka.pw.edu.pl	2016 - 2021
   Aleksandra Mileva	Goce Delcev University of Štip, Macedonia	aleksandra.mileva at ugd.edu.mk	2019 - 2021
   Kamal Nasrollahi	Aalborg University, Denmark	kn at create.aau.dk	2018 - 2020
   Cecilia Pasquini	University of Innsbruck, Austria	cecilia.pasquini at uibk.ac.at	2019 - 2021
   Fernando Pérez-González	Universidade de Vigo, Spain	fperez at gts.uvigo.es	2016 - 2021
   Guenole Silvestre	University College Dublin, Ireland	guenole.silvestre at ucd.ie	2020 - 2022
   Vitomir Štruc	Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia	vitomir.struc at fe.uni-lj.si	2018 - 2020
   Husrev Taha Sencar	TOBB University, Turkey	htsencar at etu.edu.tr	2016 - 2021
   Andreas Uhl	Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria	Andreas.Uhl at sbg.ac.at	2018 - 2020 (Vice-Chair)
   Ruben Vera-Rodriguez	Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain	Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain	2020 - 2020
   Sviatoslav (Slava) Voloshynovskiy	University of Geneva, Switzerland	svolos at unige.ch	2016 - 2021
   Steffen Wendzel	Worms University of Applied Sciences & Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn, Germany	wendzel at hs-worms.de	2018 - 2020

6. Former Members

   Name	Affiliation	Email	Term
   Patrick Bas	Ecole Centrale de Lille, France	patrick.bas at ec-lille.fr	2016 - 2017
   Zekeriya Erkin	TU Delf, Netherlands	z.erkin at tudelft.nl	2016 - 2018
   Thomas Gross	University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK	thomas.gross at ncl.ac.uk	2016 - 2017
   Anthony Ho	University of Surrey, UK	a.ho at surrey.ac.uk	2016 - 2018
   Alessandro Piva	University of Florence, Italy	alessandro.piva at unifi.it	2016 - 2018