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Short Bio

I am a Ph.D. scholar working under the supervision of Dr. Ashok Kumar Bhateja and Dr. Vireshwar Kumar (Previously Prof Prem Kumar Kalra (Retired) at the Amar Nath & Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology at IIT Delhi

Research Interests:

1. Biometrics Security

2. Data Mining, Machine Learning

3. Deep Learning

4. Biometric Template Protection

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Prior to joining IIT Delhi, I worked as an assistant professor (SS) at UPES, Dehradun, for around 4years, and Prior to that, I served as an Assistant Professor at PVPPCoE Mumbai and SPIT Mumbai for a period of around 1year and 4 months respectively. I received my Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Formerly Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad.

Please find my CV.

News

May 2025: *Received IEEE Travel Grant of 1500 USD for attending and presenting Summer School in Biometrics in Alghero,Italy.

July 2025: *Received Best Presentation Award at IEEE CIS Summer School on Emerging Trends in Computational Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Large Language Models in IIT Indore.

Jan 2024: *Received Outstanding Performance Award and IEEE Travel Grant of 1000 USD for attending and presenting Winter School in Biometrics in Shenzhen, China.

July 2025: *Paper published in Q1:Expert Systems with Applications *“[SigTem: A non-invertible technique for online signature template protection”, Amber Hayat, Syed Sadaf Ali, Vireshwar Kumar,Expert Systems with Applications (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417425012680)

June 2024: *Paper published in ICCCNT 2024 *“An Approach for Multimodal Biometric Authentication using Genetic Algorithm”, Amber Hayat, Abhishek Kumar, Ashok Kumar Bhateja, Saibal Pal, ICCCNT 2024 15th INTERNATIONAL IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING, COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES

Jan 2023: *Paper published in Q1:Computer & Security Journal *“FinTem: A secure and non-invertible technique for fingerprint template protection”}, Amber Hayat, Syed Sadaf Ali, Ashok Kumar Bhateja, Naoufel Werghi, Computers \& Security 142 (2024): 103876..

**Research topic**: Biometric Template Protection