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Ajita Rattani

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Email: Ajita.Rattani@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Cagliari, 2010
    Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Dissertation: "Adaptive Biometric System Based on Template Update Procedures"

Professional Positions

    Academic - Post-Secondary

  • Assistant Professor, Wichita State University. Wichita State University. (2019 - 2023).

    • Professional

  • Senior Research Scientist, Aware Vehicles, Inc. Aware Vehicles, Inc. (2019 - 2019).

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Computing Machinery. (2023 - Present).
  • IEEE. (2019 - Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • CSCE 4205 - Introduction to Machine Learning, 2 courses.
  • CSCE 5215 - Machine Learning, 4 courses.
  • CSCE 5900 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • CSCE 5934 - Directed Study, 4 courses.
  • CSCE 5950 - Master's Thesis, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 6280 - Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence, 1 course.
  • CSCE 6940 - Individual Research, 4 courses.

Awards and Honors

  • Nominated for IAPR TC4 Committee, IAPR. (2024).
  • Nominated for Young Biometric Investigator, IEEE Biometric Council. (November 1, 2019).
  • Nominated for Task Force Chair, IEEE CIS ISATC. (2020).
  • Best Reviewer, International Joint Conference on Biometrics. (2021).
  • Nominated for NSF Mentor, IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics. (March 2020).
  • Nominated for Editorial Board Member, IEEE Biometrics Council. (2019).
  • Outstanding Reviewer, Elsevier Journal of Image and Vision Computing. (2018).
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Intl Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security. (2017).
  • Best Doctoral Thesis Award, University of Cagliari. (2010).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Rattani, A., Katamneni, V. (2023). An Examination of Fairness of Face and Periocular Recognition at NIR Spectrum. Springer.
  • Rattani, A., Ramachandran, S. Demographic Fairness and Accountability of Audio and Video-based Unimodal and Bi-modal Deepfake Detectors.

    • Conference Proceeding

  • Rattani, A., Jakkam, J., Jayaraman, U., Sahayam, S. (2024). CoDeiT: Contrastive Data-efficient Transformers for Deepfake Detection.
  • Rattani, A., Katamneni, V. (2024). Contextual Cross-Modal Attention for Audio-Visual Deepfake Detection and Localization. 8. NY, USA,
  • Rattani, A., Manzoor, A. (2024). FineFACE: Fair Facial Attribute Classification Leveraging Fine-grained Features.
  • Rattani, A., Aarotale, P. Machine Learning-based sEMG Signal Classification for Hand Gesture Recognition. 1-8. IEEE.
  • Rattani, A., Ramachandran, S. (2024). Self-Supervised Learning Pipeline for Demographically Fair Facial Attribute Classification.
  • Rattani, A., Aarotale, P. (2024). Sensor Fusion-based Deep Learning Models for Human Activity Classification.
  • Rattani, A., Nadimpalli, A.V. (2023). Facial Forgery-based Deepfake Detection using Fine-Grained Features. Florida, IEEE.
  • Rattani, A., Katamneni, V. (2023). MIS-AVoiDD: Modality Invariant and Specific Representation for Audio-Visual Deepfake Detection.
  • Rattani, A., Aarotale, P. (2023). PatchBMI-Net: Lightweight Facial Patch-based Ensemble for BMI Prediction. Turkey, Istambul, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM).

    • Journal Article

  • Rattani, A. (2023). A novel approach for bias mitigation of gender classification algorithms using consistency regularization. Image and Vision Computing Journal. Elsevier.
  • Rattani, A. (2023). ProActive DeepFake Detection Using GAN-Based Visible Watermarking. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications. 27. New York, ACM.
  • Rattani, A., Demissie, Z. The significance of volcanic segments and rifts in faults characterization within the Amagmatic graben of the Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Elsevier.

Media Contributions

    Magazine

  • "WSU professor keeps an eye out for what's real and what's not," Business Journal Wichita. (2023).

    • Newspaper

  • "Your Face is Your Password," Wichita Eagle. (2021).

    • Other

  • "Probing Fairness of Ocular Biometrics Methods Across Demographic Variations," Federal Identity Forum & Exposition. (2022).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Rattani, A. (Principal), "Probing Fairness of Ocular Biometrics Methods Across Demographic Variations," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $16000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).

Copyrights, Patents

    Patent

  • Rattani, A., Authentication verification using soft biometric traits, US 10,922,399 B2. Regular, Date submitted to the University: 2021. Date Patent Approved: 2021. .

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, PhD Admissions Committee. (2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Tenure Track Faculty Search Committee. (2023 - Present).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Digital Threats. (2024 - Present).
  • Workshop Organizer, IEEE BMVC 2024. Glasgow, (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE ICIP 2024. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE ICPR. (2024 - Present).
  • Program Organizer, IEEE IJCB. Buffalo, NY. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE IJCB. Buffalo, NY. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Internet of Things. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Sensor. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement. (2024 - Present).
  • Editor, Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on TBIOM. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE WACV. Tuscon, Arizona. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, NSF. (2024 - Present).
  • Editor, Associate Editor, Associate Editor of EAAI Elsevier journal. (2023 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, EAAI Elsevier. (2023 - Present).
  • Editor, Guest Editor, Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters. (2023 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Pattern Recognition. (2023 - Present).
  • Area Chair, IAPR TC4 Education Subcommittee Chair. (2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, IEEE Biometric Council Education Committee. (2022 - Present).
  • Area Chair, IEEE Intl. Joint Conference on Biometrics. (2022 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Sensors Journal. (2022 - Present).
  • Area Chair, IEEE Intelligent System Application Technical Committee Task Force Chair. (2021 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision. (2021 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, NSF Panelist. (2020 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE Intl. Conference on Image Processing. (2019 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Elsevier Machine Learning and Applications. (2018 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Elsevier Neurocomputing. (2018 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Access. (2018 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security. (2018 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (2016 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE ICPRAI. (2023).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE Intl on Conf. on Machine Learning and Applications. (2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Springer Nature. (2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Elsevier Image and Vision Computing. (2018 - 2023).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE WIFS. (2017 - 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. (2022 - 2022).
  • Area Chair, IAPR Intl. Conf. of Pattern Recognition. (2020 - 2022).