People

Dr. Stephen J. Elliott
Director
Dr. Elliott is the Director of the labs. He is currently an Associate Professor in Industrial Technology and is heavily involved in research, education and standardization activities related to biometrics.

Dr. Eric Kukula
Visiting Assistant Prof. & Senior Biometrics Researcher
Dr. Kukula is a visiting assistant professor in Industrial Technology Department and is the senior biometric researcher in the lab. His research interests are in usability and human biometric sensor interaction.

Dr. Shimon Modi
Director of Research
Dr. Modi is the Director of Research for the lab. His research interests include statistical performance evaluation of biometric systems, interoperability of systems, and electronic authentication using biometrics.

Visiting Fulbright Scholar
Jurica Seva
Jurica is a visiting researcher at BSPA Lab at Purdue until May 2010. His research interests are in web and web systems, semantical web, ontologies, and knowledge management.

Ph.D. Students
Christy Blomeke
Graduate Researcher
Christy is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial Technology and has conducted biometrics research over the past 4 years. Her research interests include: evaluation of fingerprint image quality and performance, biometrics in healthcare, and social perceptions of biometric technologies.

M.S. Students
Benny Senjaya
Graduate Researcher
Benny is a Graduate Student at Purdue University and a researcher in the BSPA Lab. His research interests include the human interaction, fingerprint, and iris modalities.

Greg Hales
Graduate Researcher
Greg is a Graduate Student at Purdue University and a researcher in the BSPA Lab. His research interests include the face, fingerprint, and iris modalities as well as multi-modal biometric systems.

Mitch Mershon
Graduate Researcher
Mitch is a Graduate Student at Purdue University and a researcher in the BSPA Lab. His research interests include the perceptions of biometric systems, HBSI, and multi-modal systems.

Marvin Michels
Graduate Researcher
Marvin is a first year Industrial Technology graduate student from Chicago, Illinois. Current research topics involve Finger Vein software development and 10 Print Fingerprint capture and analysis.

Ashwin Mohan
Graduate Researcher
Ashwin is a Graduate Student at CERIAS, Purdue University and a researcher in the BSPA Lab. His research interests include evaluation of fingerprint modality and development of biometric standards, specifically BioAPI Java.

Undergraduate Researchers
Jonathan Hight
Undergraduate Researcher
Jonathan Hight is a senior, majoring in Industrial Distribution. His research areas are in face recognition and finger vein.

Evan Tinny
Undergradute Researcher
Evan is currently an undergraduate at Purdue in the College of Technology from South Bend, Indiana. His current research has been in facial recognition and he is interested in iris recognition and multimodal biometric systems.

Nathan Price
Undergraduate Researcher
Nate is currently an undergrad student at Purdue University and a researcher in the BSPA Lab. His research interests include the face and fingerprint modalities as well as the entrepreneurial aspect of biometrics.

Kevin O’Connor
Undergraduate Researcher
Kevin is an undergraduate researcher at Purdue studying in Industrial Technology. His research interests include applied research in face and iris recognition.

Andy Hees
Undergraduate Researcher
Andy is an undergraduate researcher at Purdue studying in Industrial Technology.His research interest is in iris recognition.