IEEE SAKEC in association with Department of Electronics Engineering organized a Faculty Development Program under Distinguished Lecture series on “Computational Intelligence for Biometrics” on 19th December 2017. This lecture was delivered by Prof. Vincenzo Piuri of University of Milano, Italy. Prof. Vincenzo Piuri is Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Milano, Italy, and has been Visiting Professor at University of Texas at Austin and at George Mason University, USA. Main research interests are: Intelligent Systems, Signal/Image Processing, Machine Learning, Pattern analysis and recognition, Biometrics, Neural Networks. Original results have been published in more than 400 papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, and books. He is IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, and INNS Senior Member.
Vice-Principal Dr.V.C.Kotak welcomed the guest and the audience. Mr. Abhay Phansikar, Vice Chair, IEEE Bombay section was kind enough to grace the session. The session was attended by our staff members, students and researchers from other academic institutions. Prof. Vincenzo Piuri explained the subject in a lucid style and the talk was followed by a rigorous question answer session which showed the involvement of the audience in the subject. Principal Dr. Bhavesh Patel felicitated the speaker. Dr.Uma Rao, Head, Department of Electronics Engineering, proposed the vote of thanks.
