Raghavendra Ramachandra

Raghavendra Ramachandra is a Professor at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK), within the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Gjøvik. His research focuses on biometric systems, particularly in face, fingerprint, and finger vein recognition, with emphasis on presentation attack detection, morphing attack detection, and deep learning applications.

Current research projects include:

• SALT (2022-2026): Developing privacy-preserving facial biometric authentication systems.
• OffPAD (2022-2025): Creating cryptographic tools and presentation attack detection for fingerprint biometrics.
• SWAN (2015-2020): Developing biometric countermeasures against presentation attacks.

His recent publications demonstrate technical expertise in:

• Face morphing attack detection using vision transformers and point cloud networks
• Image fusion techniques for multispectral biometrics
• GAN-based synthetic data generation for security evaluation
• Explainable AI approaches for biometric verification

Professor Ramachandra also supervises PhD and Master’s students, and has extensive experience in leading national and EU research initiatives.