Panel: How do we fight next-generation Deepfakes? - à CimArk
Speakers
Professor and senior researcher in biometrics security and privacy • Idiap Research Institute & UNIL
Prof. Sébastien Marcel (IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow) received his Ph.D. in signal processing from Université de Rennes I in 2000. His work focuses on signal processing, pattern recognition, and machine/deep learning, with a strong emphasis on biometric security and privacy. Since June 2025, he has been part of the Interim Management Team at the Idiap Research Institute. He is a senior researcher and head of the Biometrics Security and Privacy group, leading research on face, speaker, and vein recognition, attack detection (including presentation attacks, morphing, and deepfakes), and template protection. His group is strongly committed to reproducible research and open-source tools. He is also a Professor at the Université de Lausanne, where he teaches biometrics at the School of Criminal Justice. Previously, he lectured at EPFL on statistical pattern recognition at the Doctoral School. Prof. Marcel has served in several editorial and leadership roles, including VP Conferences of the IEEE Biometrics Council and Associate Editor for multiple IEEE journals. He has been Guest Editor and Co-editor for special issues on biometric security and is the lead co-editor of the Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing (Editions 1–3). He has led major international research projects such as MOBIO, TABULA RASA, and BEAT, and serves as Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing.
CEO & Co-founder • Brightside
Andrey studied Electronics & Computer Science at QMUL, London, and holds a Masters Degree in Big Data Science. As the Co-founder & CEO of BRIGHTSIDE (a company within the Trust Valley ecosystem), he is dedicated to helping businesses and their employees combat fraud and social engineering, which has become increasingly problematic with the rise of generative AI. Andrey's passion for understanding how AI and humans can coexist in balance drives his work and fuels his commitment to addressing the challenges posed by the evolving technological landscape.