Center for Identification Technology Research
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
Congratulations to Matt Valenti on this award; Matt has been a longtime contributor to the success of CITeR as a co-director at the WVU site. Well deserved!
IEEE Communications Society Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences | IEEE Communications Society | Matthew Valenti | 89 comments
I’m honored to be named the 2025 recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences. This recognition reflects many years of volunteer work organizing ICC, GLOBECOM, MILCOM, and other IEEE events. I'm especially grateful to the countless...
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.
