About
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland. I received my Ph.D. from EPFL in 2024, supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, and also spent six months of it as a visiting scholar with Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany. My work has been recognised with the European Research Award EAB 2023 and the IEEE Best Doctoral Dissertation Award 2025. I am an IEEE Senior Member and an ELLIS Member.
My research interests include foundation models, MLLMs, generative models, AI safety, and data privacy.Selected publications
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ICCVW2025
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ICLR2025
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TPAMI2023
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NeurIPS2023
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TIFS2023
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T-BIOM2024
News
2026
- Sep 2026I gave a tutorial on “Foundation and Multimodal Large Language Models for Biometrics” at IJCB 2026 link
- Aug 2026We published the pre-print of our new paper, “Foundation and Multimodal Large Language Models for Face Presentation and Morph Attack Detection” pdf
- Jun 2026I am co-organising the ECCV 2026 Workshop on Foundation and Generative Models in Biometrics.
- Mar 2026Our paper on Demographic Fairness in Multimodal LLMs was accepted in CVPR 2026 Workshops. pdf
- Jan 2026I am co-organising the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Foundation and Generative Models in Biometrics.
- Jan 2026I am co-organising a special session on Foundation & Generative Models for Face and Gesture Recognition at FG 2026.
- Jan 2026I contributed to two chapters in the Handbook of Biometric Template Protection Chapter 1 Chapter 2
2025
- Dec 2025Our paper was accepted in IEEE-TIFS pdf
- Dec 2025I became an ELLIS Member.
- Nov 2025I was a panelist in the EAB Council of Wisdom on the topic of Biometric Template Protection.
- Oct 2025I gave a guest lecture in CSE 902: “Selected Topics in Recognition by Machine” course at Michigan State University details
- Sep 2025I received the IEEE Biometrics Council Best Doctoral Dissertation Award.
- Aug 2025Our survey paper, “Foundation Models and Biometrics: A Survey and Outlook”, is accepted in IEEE-TIFS pdf
- Jul 2025Our paper was accepted in ICCV 2025 Workshops, “FaceLLM: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Face Understanding” pdf
- May 2025Our paper was accepted in ICML 2025 pdf
- May 2025I am co-organising the ICCV 2025 Workshop on Foundation and Generative Models in Biometrics.
- Mar 2025We published the pre-print of our new paper, “Foundation Models and Biometrics: A Survey and Outlook” pdf
- Feb 2025We are organising the “1st International Workshop on Foundation, Multimodal Large Language and Generative Models for Face and Gesture Recognition” at FG 2025 workshop
- Jan 2025Our paper was accepted in ICLR 2025 pdf
2024
- Dec 2024I will be attending NeurIPS 2024 to present our 3 papers on synthetic data, membership inference attacks, and backdoor attacks.
- Nov 2024I will give an invited keynote talk in the Synthetic Realities and Biometric Security Workshop at BMVC 2024.
- Nov 2024Our paper was accepted in IEEE-Access pdf
- Sep 2024I defended my PhD and graduated from EPFL PhD thesis
- Jul 2024Our paper was accepted in IEEE-Access pdf
- Jun 2024We ranked first in the CVPR 2024 FRCSyn Challenge certificate challenge summary paper
- May 2024I will give an invited keynote talk in the Synthetic Data for Face and Gesture Analysis Workshop at FG 2024.
- Mar 2024Our paper was accepted in IEEE-TIFS pdf
- Mar 2024Our paper was accepted at FG 2024 pdf
2023
- Dec 2023I was interviewed, as Researcher on the Rise, by the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter link, pp. 28–31
- Nov 2023We are organising SDFR competition at FG 2024.
- Sep 2023I received the EAB Research Award 2023.
- Sep 2023Our paper was accepted at NeurIPS 2023 pdf
- Sep 2023Our paper was accepted at TPAMI project page
Contact
- hatef.otroshi@idiap.ch