Tom Bäckström D.Sc. (tech.) is an associate professor at Aalto University, Finland (2019-). He obtained his Master's and Doctoral degrees at the Helsinki University of Technology (the predecessor of Aalto) in 2001 and 2004, respectively. During his time at International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany (2008-2016), he made contributions to several international speech and audio coding standards such as MPEG USAC and 3GPP EVS, and became a professor (W2) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (2012-2016). Before his current position, he was a professor practice at Aalto University (2016-2019). He was the initiator and chair of ISCA SIG "Security and Privacy in Speech Communication" (2019-2022) and is currently a member of the ISCA Board. His current research interests include privacy, coding, enhancement, and transmission of speech as well as machine learning.
Arun Ross is the Martin J. Vanderploeg Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, and the Site Director of NSF’s Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR). He conducts research on the topic of biometrics, privacy, computer vision and deep learning. He is a recipient of the JK Aggarwal Prize (2014) and the Young Biometrics Investigator Award (2013) from the International Association of Pattern Recognition for his contributions to the field of Pattern Recognition and Biometrics. He was designated a Kavli Fellow by the US National Academy of Sciences by virtue of his presentation at the 2006 Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposia. Ross is also a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.
Ross has advocated for the responsible use of biometrics in multiple forums including the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Identity and Security in Switzerland in 2018. He testified as an expert panelist in an event organized by the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee at the UN Headquarters in 2013. In June 2022, he testified at the US House Science, Space, and Technology Committee on the topic of Biometrics and Personal Privacy. He is a co-author of the monograph “Handbook of Multibiometrics” and the textbook “Introduction to Biometrics”.
Since 2020, Franck Dumortier is a researcher at the Cyber & Data Security Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). In this role, he focuses on cybersecurity and cybercrime law, and how these norms relate to the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection. He combines this role with that of lecturer in the fields of privacy, cybersecurity and cybercrime within various training programmes. In addition, since April 2017, he has been working as a senior consultant at Cybersecurity-law.be, helping businesses and organisations to comply with privacy and data security requirements. He does this through advice, audits, coaching, training and other types of support. Since 2022, Franck is also member of the Brussels Control Commission (Regional Data Protection Authority). Between 2005 and 2020, Franck was a researcher at the "Centre de Recherche Information, Droit et Société" (CRIDS) at the University of Namur.
Nikolaos Ioannidis began as a doctoral researcher at the Research Group on Law, Science, Technology, and Society (LSTS) at the outset of 2020.
He graduated from the Law Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), where he additionally undertook the bar traineeship. He holds postgraduate degrees from KU Leuven and Université libre de Bruxelles in European Law and ICT Law. In 2014/5, he was a visiting student (Erasmus) at the University of Liège, where for two semesters he studied European law.
Previously, he worked in the Hellenic Army as a Reserve Officer in Telecommunications and Signals (2016-17) Right after, he completed the bar traineeship and worked as an associate lawyer in Thessaloniki, in a law firm specializing in IT law. After moving to Belgium, he joined the Center for IT and IP law (CiTiP) of KU Leuven working on two projects relating to smart cities and algorithmic transparency (2019). Before joining CDSL, he was a Blue Book trainee (2020) within the Policy and Consultation Unit of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), where he mostly worked on AI regulation. While a Ph.D., he has worked on several Horizon projects around theories and practices of data protection, artificial intelligence, and impact assessment.
PriMa has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 860315
TReSPAsS-ETN has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 860813
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