We welcome you to CDS-KIAC talk on 27th July 2026 (Monday). The details are as below:
Speaker : Prof. Ajay Kumar, Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Title : Trustworthy Human Authentication in the Age of Generative AI
Date and Time : July 27, 2026: 04:00 PM
Venue : # 102, CDS Seminar Hall
ABSTRACT:
The rapid advancement of generative AI and large language models has reshaped the cybersecurity landscape, enabling both powerful defence mechanisms and sophisticated cyber-attacks such as social engineering, malware generation, fake news, and autonomous hacking agents. These emerging threats highlight the urgent need for trustworthy, user-friendly, and robust human authentication across mobile identity, fintech, e-payments, healthcare, and public services. This talk discusses how biometric recognition can address these challenges. It reviews modern approaches and recent progress in contactless and hand-based authentication on mobile devices, emphasizing their potential for secure, convenient, and scalable identity verification.
BIOGRAPHY:
Ajay Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received a B.Eng. degree (with first position in the class), an M.Eng., and a Ph.D. from The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2001. Before joining PolyU, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi from 2005 to 2007.
Professor Kumar’s research focuses on biometrics, with particular emphasis on contactless hand biometrics, vascular biometrics, iris recognition, and multimodal biometric systems. He holds seven U.S. patents and has authored two books, including Contactless 3D Fingerprint Identification (2018) and Iris and Periocular Recognition using Deep Learning (2024). A Fellow of IAPR and IEEE, he has held several prominent leadership roles in the biometrics community, including President of the IEEE Biometrics Council (2021–2022), and has served on editorial boards of several leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2020-2025).
Host Faculty: Prof. Venkatesh Babu, CDS
ALL ARE WELCOME
