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I have a deep interest on how the technologies can be used to improve the quality of human health
care, unravel the secrets of our body, and uniquely identify each person based on the unique
characteristics embedded in their body. As an electrical engineering undergraduate student, I had
a chance to learn more about image processing where I did my undergraduate thesis to enhance
the image quality input of human health care devices for the next processing module. It was a
challenging, yet exciting project which led me to explore more about human body parts and its
uniqueness. I found out that several parts of human body have unique properties that can be
extracted for identification purposes using image processing.
After finishing my bachelor's degree, I took a master's degree in security and information systems
field. During my study, I learned that information system involves data about people. In order to
associate the data with a certain human, a reliable, effective and efficient identification scheme is
needed to be established and maintained. There are several techniques in human identification
including names, codes, token and knowledge-based identification, also biometrics. Based on my
previous experience and my interest while I was in my undergraduate study, I chose biometrics
as personal recognition in information systems as my main thesis topic. By using biometrics, an
automatic and convenience personal recognition can be established. However, because this
method involves human physiological or behavioral characteristics, it is also vulnerable for being
forged. Once the biometric features are compromised, the user will not have any substitute for it.
Based on this problem, my thesis concern was about the security part of the biometric recognition
system. The research purpose was to enhance security in a key binding process by using biometric
cryptography. By using this method, the user’s biometric template is protected while the matching
process was established. However, this method can make the recognition process taking more
time for higher accuracy.
Improving security aspects in biometric recognition systems not only by adding more security
modules and assessing it but also by considering the attacker's behavior from the adversaries’
side. Research can be done by inspecting the vulnerabilities of the systems along with the
corresponding attack, then find the countermeasures and make the defense mechanisms.
Nowadays, innovations in machine learning have influenced every part of research development.
The increasing of machine learning techniques also gives impact in research about biometric
recognition systems. By using machine learning, attacks against biometric recognition systems
can be learned by creating adaptive and intelligent adversaries to gain access to the biometric
systems. Based on this phenomenon, my next research intent is to explore about biometric
recognition system using adversarial machine learning method. First, a specific algorithm for
In Indonesia, biometric recognition has been used in various systems although not in the crucial
ones such as financial transactions due to regulation problems. Nevertheless, in the future it is
possible that biometric recognition will dominate the identification process so that the development
of the biometric recognition system still needed to make a robust system. Unfortunately, research
in this field in Indonesia still rare and there is no specific research group in this field. After I
searched, I found that in Auckland, there is a professor that has research focused on biometric.
By entering the research group at University of Auckland, I hope that I can get an adequate
research environment and research colleagues whom I can share my thought and get guidance
from the experts there.
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