Terence SIM

For research, Dr. Sim explores several areas related to Biometrics and Visual Computing: Multimodal biometrics, Deepfake synthesis and detection, Facial image analysis and rendering, Continuous authentication, to name a few. He combines machine learning with physics-based modeling and graphics rendering to tackle the challenges in research. Dr Sim also provides consultancy in biometrics, which can be in the form of training, feasibility study, or technical assessment.

Dr. Sim has published over 130 papers in top international journals and conferences. He is active both as Reviewer and as Senior Program Committee Member in numerous conferences. He is also an IEEE Member. He served as Second Vice President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) from 2021 to 2022, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI) from 2020 to 2022, President of the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association in Singapore from 2014 to 2016, and was also Vice President from 2010 to 2014. Dr. Sim also strongly believes in International Standards and served as Chairman of Workgroup 6: Cross-Jurisdiction and Societal Issues of the Biometrics Technical Committee in Singapore from 2006 to 2014.

RESEARCH AREAS

Security

Authentication & Biometrics

Privacy Technologies

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Computer Vision

Media

Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition