Ajita Rattani
University of North Texas
Computer Science and Engineering
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Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary
Assistant Professor, Wichita State University. (August 16, 2019 – August 15, 2023).
Professional
Senior Research Scientist, Aware Vehicles, Inc. (January 1, 2019 – August 30, 2019).

Professional Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery. (2023 – Present).

Member, IEEE. (2019 – Present).

Awards and Honors

Nominated for: Young Biometric Investigator, IEEE Biometric Council. (November 1, 2019 – Present).

Nominated for: Task Force Chair, IEEE CIS ISATC. (2020 – 2025).

Nominated for: NSF Mentor, IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics. (March 2020 – March 2020).

Nominated for: Editorial Board Member, IEEE Biometrics Council. (2019 – 2019).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
CSCE 4205, Introduction to Machine Learning, 1 course.
CSCE 5215, Machine Learning, 2 courses.
CSCE 5934, Directed Study, 2 courses.
CSCE 5950, Master's Thesis, 1 course.
CSCE 6940, Individual Research, 2 courses.

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., 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 and 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, United States, Date Submitted to University: 2021 –. Date Patent Approved: 2021 –.

Awards and Honors

Best Reviewer, International Joint Conference on Biometrics. (2021 – 2021).

Outstanding Reviewer, Elsevier Journal of Image and Vision Computing. (2018 – 2018).

Best Paper Award, IEEE Intl Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security. (2017 – 2017).

Best Doctoral Thesis Award, University of Cagliari. (2010 – 2010).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, PhD Admissions Committee. (2023 – Present).

Committee Member, Tenure Track Faculty Search Committee. (2023 – Present).

Professional Service

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).