Common Attack Vectors Made Possible by GenAI and Countermeasures

Biography

Norman Poh currently provides technical leadership to accelerate Truststamp's growth in the area of privacy-preserving biometrics, improving its products and services which focus on identity management addressing KYC/AML issues. Previously, he held two data science roles in two distinctive sectors, namely, financial forecasting within an oil and gas industry and modelling, predicting and understanding disease progression from healthcare and health administrative data.

Currently, he is appointed by University of Malta as an Affiliate Associate Professor. Prior to the aforementioned data science roles, he held several academic roles at University of Surrey, from Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor); to principal investigator of a project funded by the Medical Research Council under the New Investigator Research Grant, leading the research on modelling chronic kidney disease.

He has written more 100 peer-reviewed publications, including five best paper awards (AVBPA’05, ICB’09, HSI 2010, ICPR 2010 and Pattern Recognition Journal 2006), and was awarded two personal fellowships sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He was named the Researcher of the Year by the university of Surrey in 2011. He received his Ph.D. degree in information fusion (machine learning) in 2006 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

He is a co-director of the Biometric Winter School. Previously, he served as an external adviser to the European reference network for critical infrastructure protection (ERNCIP); an academic reviewer to several universities; and an associate editor of the IET Biometrics Journal and the Biometric compendium. He has also reviewed for major IEEE/IAPR-organised conferences and journals in computer vision, biometrics, and security.

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