Eindhoven University of Technology

Belarusian State University

GN Group

Senior Portfolio Scientist

Algorithm development and prototyping. 
Bayesian learning, reinforcement learning, AI for hearing aid domain applications.
Leading user studies for preference learning.

Senior Research Scientist

Guest Assistant Professor

Research activities:
Biometric systems privacy and security; Authentication and identification; Security based on noisy data;   Statistical modelling of genetic data for privacy-preserving similarity queries;  PUF-based security; Information-theoretical security; (Multiuser) information theory; Source coding

Teaching and supervision: 
- Responsible lecturer of “Fundamental Aspects of Random Signals and Processes”. Core MSc. course, covering probability, statistics, estimation, and detection theory;
- Co-lecturer of “Applications of Information Theory”. MSc. course, covering information-theoretic security and secure biometric system design; 
- Responsible lecturer of “Statistical Signal Processing”. MSc. course, covering probability and estimation theory;
- Student supervision at  PhD, MSc and BSc levels.

Organization/Management:
- EU-FP7 AU2EU project co-coordinator and WP leader: joint eAuthentication and eAuthorization framework in distributed environments, supporting different identity/attribute providers and organizational policies and guaranteeing privacy, security and trust. 12 industrial and academic partners from Europe and Australia;
- 10+ Funding applications with industrial and academic partners in FP7, H2020 and NWO programs;
- IEEE, ACM, EURASIP, IAPR conference organization activities and professional services

Assistant Professor

Research activities:
- Secure medical data processing and management: privacy-preserving medical recommender systems, attribute-based encryption, privacy-preserving DNA matching, cloud computing security;
- Statistical analysis for dose reduction in cardio fluoroscopy.

Projects/Organization:
- Supported standardization activities;
- IP generation;
- Supervisor of 2 PhD students.

Philips Research

Research Scientist

Research activities:
Secure biometric identification; Analysis of coding techniques for secure biometric identification and authentication; Secrecy extraction.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Topic: Biometric Data Protection

Research Interests: Secure Private Biometrics; Information Theoretical Secret Sharing; Source Coding; Multiuser Information Theory

Short description: Secrecy and privacy analysis of biometric systems. Determining secret key rate-privacy leakage regions for biometric secret generation models and biometric models with chosen secrets. Determining secret key rate-private key rate regions for biometric systems with zero privacy leakage. Estimation of secret key rates for biometric data. Code constructions for secure biometric systems.

PhD Candidate

Responsibilities: 
Carrying out diverse modeling projects for industrial companies.

Final project: 
Evaluation of Reliable (Robust) Biometric Authentication Schemes with Privacy Protection,  at Philips Research Laboratory

Intermediate projects: 
- Development and Implementation of Algorithm for Optimizing the Foil Stock, at ITW Foils;
- Alignment of Power Traces and Improvement of Differential Power Analysis Attack on triple-DES, at Cryptology Competence Centre, Philips Semiconductors; 
- Development of Algorithm for Beer Production Scheduling, at Bavaria

Tanya Ignatenko