Center for Identification Technology Research
What a great experience at Identity Week America 2026 last week!
CITeR was proud to have West Virginia University students Alex Needham and William Zane Valentine representing the center at our booth. One of the highlights was connecting with former CITeR Ph.D. researchers from Clarkson University who are now making an impact in industry: Richard Plesh (SAIC), Keivan Bahmani (Mitek Systems), and Naveen Venkataswamy (Securiport).
These connections are a great example of what the Industry–University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) program is all about—bringing together industry innovators, world-class academic researchers, government leaders, and students to accelerate the impact of research.
Through these partnerships, IUCRCs work to:
🔹 Conduct high-impact research that addresses shared industry needs
🔹 Strengthen U.S. leadership in innovative technology development
🔹 Identify, mentor, and develop the next generation of a highly skilled technology workforce
It was great to see the CITeR community—past, present, and future—coming together at Identity Week! #IdentityWeekAmerica #CITeR #IUCRC #Biometrics #IdentityScience #WorkforceDevelopment
CITeR was proud to have West Virginia University students Alex Needham and William Zane Valentine representing the center at our booth. One of the highlights was connecting with former CITeR Ph.D. researchers from Clarkson University who are now making an impact in industry: Richard Plesh (SAIC), Keivan Bahmani (Mitek Systems), and Naveen Venkataswamy (Securiport).
These connections are a great example of what the Industry–University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) program is all about—bringing together industry innovators, world-class academic researchers, government leaders, and students to accelerate the impact of research.
Through these partnerships, IUCRCs work to:
🔹 Conduct high-impact research that addresses shared industry needs
🔹 Strengthen U.S. leadership in innovative technology development
🔹 Identify, mentor, and develop the next generation of a highly skilled technology workforce
It was great to see the CITeR community—past, present, and future—coming together at Identity Week! #IdentityWeekAmerica #CITeR #IUCRC #Biometrics #IdentityScience #WorkforceDevelopment
Congrats to this group, many are former CITeR participants - you may recognize a few of the names/faces!!
Former MSU CSE PhD student Brendan Klare and former MSU CSE MS student Scott Klum's company Rank One Computing (ROC) listed on NASDQ recently. Pictured are the co-founders and employees (all former MSU CSE students!) and CSE Professor Dr. Anil Jain attending the bell ringing event at NASDAQ, Thursday, March 19.
Pictured left to right: Joshua Engelsma (Ph.D., 2021), Ellie Cozzo (B.S., 2020), Anil Jain (University Distinguished Professor and Douglas E. Zongker endowed professor), Brendan Klare (Ph.D. 2012, Co-founder ROC), Keyur Patel (M.S., 2016), Scott Klum (M.S., 2014, Co-founder ROC), Steven Grosz (Ph.D., 2024).
Former MSU CSE PhD student Brendan Klare and former MSU CSE MS student Scott Klum's company Rank One Computing (ROC) listed on NASDQ recently. Pictured are the co-founders and employees (all former MSU CSE students!) and CSE Professor Dr. Anil Jain attending the bell ringing event at NASDAQ, Thursday, March 19.
Pictured left to right: Joshua Engelsma (Ph.D., 2021), Ellie Cozzo (B.S., 2020), Anil Jain (University Distinguished Professor and Douglas E. Zongker endowed professor), Brendan Klare (Ph.D. 2012, Co-founder ROC), Keyur Patel (M.S., 2016), Scott Klum (M.S., 2014, Co-founder ROC), Steven Grosz (Ph.D., 2024).
CITeR is excited to announce LivDet Face 2026, the third edition of the LivDet Face competition focused on Face Presentation Attack Detection (PAD). The competition aims to benchmark the robustness of face PAD algorithms and systems under standardized evaluation protocols. Details can be found on the Linkedin announcement below.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/igene-lambert_livdet-facepad-biometrics-share-7436766771153616896-fjRK?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAB-qSMkBJcuIGIEBKfn-ULqpTM8UiZYu2BU
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/igene-lambert_livdet-facepad-biometrics-share-7436766771153616896-fjRK?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAB-qSMkBJcuIGIEBKfn-ULqpTM8UiZYu2BU
CITeR is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC).
Our mission is to work in partnership with our government and industry stakeholders to advance the state of the art in human identification capabilities through coordinated university research.
