Sébastien Marcel
Interim Management Team Direction Ad Interim at University of Lausanne - UNIL
Martigny, Wallis, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSébastien Marcel is an IEEE- and IAPR-fellowship-holding researcher and interim management member at Idiap with over 17 years leading biometrics security and privacy research. He heads Idiap’s Biometrics Security and Privacy group, directs the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing, and teaches biometrics at UNIL while maintaining a strong track record in EU-funded projects (MOBIO, TABULA RASA, BEAT). His work spans face, speaker and vein recognition, anti-spoofing (presentation/morphing/deepfakes) and template protection, with a strong emphasis on reproducibility through openly shared code and models. A seasoned editor and conference leader in IEEE venues and co-editor of the Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing, he blends deep academic credentials with practical project coordination and institutional ethics leadership. Notably, he transitioned from industry R&D at France Telecom to shape European biometrics evaluation and standards, combining hands-on algorithm expertise with research governance.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Sciences, Baccalauréat, Sciences at Lycée de Terrasson-LavilledieuPhD, Signal Processing, PhD, Signal Processing at Université de Rennes IMSc, Artificial Intelligence, MSc, Artificial Intelligence at Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III)BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Université de Limoges
English, French
Github Skills (17)
signal-processing10
biometrics10
machine-learning9
pypi6
package-repository5
python5
extraction1
computation1
feature-extraction1
keypoint1
speaker1
python-bindings1
localization1
bob1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
smarcel/smarcel.github.io
Jun 2018 - Apr 2026
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
idiap/bob
Nov 2008 - Apr 2010
Bob is a free signal-processing and machine learning toolbox originally developed by the Biometrics group at Idiap Research Institute, in Switzerland.
Contributions:101 commits in 1 year 4 months
biometricsmachine-learningsignal-processing
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