Kiran Raja

Kiran Raja is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science within the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. With a focus on biometric security, computer vision, and educational technology, Raja's academic career spans both technical innovation and pedagogical research.

Research interests include:

• Biometric Security – Face morphing attack detection, deepfake defense, and cancelable template protection
• Computer Vision – Facial recognition, image generation, and UAV-based person re-identification
• Medical AI – Healthcare data protection and medical image super-resolution
• Educational Reform – Redesigning computer science curricula and cross-campus teaching methodologies

Recent work trends show a strong emphasis on privacy-preserving AI, ethical biometric systems, and educational technology. Key technical contributions include

• Vision Transformers for morphing attack detection
• GAN-based synthetic face morphing datasets
• Quantization-enhanced models for edge computing
• Graph Neural Networks for activity recognition

Collaborations span institutions like IEEE, Springer, and SPIE, with consistent co-authorship with researchers such as Christoph Busch, Raghavendra Ramachandra, and Haoyu Zhang.