Javier Ortega-Garcia received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (Ingeniero de Telecomunicacion), in 1989; and the Ph.D. degree "cum laude" also in electrical engineering (Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicacion), in 1996, both from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. Dr. Ortega-Garcia is founder and co-director of the Biometric Recognition Group - ATVS. He is currently a Full Professor at the Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, where he teaches Digital Signal Processing and Speech Processing courses. He also holds a Ph.D. degree course in Biometric Signal Processing. His research interests are focused on biometrics signal processing: speaker recognition, fingerprint recognition, on-line signature verification, data fusion and multibiometrics. He has published over 150 international contributions, including book chapters, refereed journal and conference papers. He chaired "Odyssey-04, The Speaker Recognition Workshop", co-sponsored by IEEE, and is currently co-chairing "ICB-09, the 3rd IAPR International Conference on Biometrics".

Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, received the M.S. degree in 1994; and the Ph.D. degree "cum laude" in 1999, both in electrical engineering, from Univ. Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. Dr. Gonzalez-Rodriguez is founder and co-director of the Biometric Recognition Group - ATVS. After 15 years of research and lecturing at UPM, he is since May 2006 an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department at Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, where he leads the Speech group of ATVS. He has led ATVS participations in NIST Speaker (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2008) and Language (2005 & 2007) Recognition Evaluations, and 2003 NFI-TNO Forensic Speaker Recognition Evaluation. Dr. Gonzalez-Rodriguez is since 2000 an invited member of the FSAAWG (Forensic Speech and Audio Analysis Working Group) in ENFSI (European Network of Forensic Science Institutes). His research interests are focused on speaker and language recognition, forensics and biometrics. He is a member of ISCA and the Signal Processing Society of IEEE, and is also a member of the Program Committee of the ISCA Odyssey conferences on Speaker and Language Recognition, being vice-chair of Odyssey 2004 in Toledo (Spain).

Juan Alberto Sigüenza receive his Ph.D. degree "cum laude" in Biological Sciences, in 1982, from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Dr. Sigüenza has been postdoctoral fellow of the Max Planck Gesellschaft at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen (Germany). He is currently an Associate Professor at the Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he teaches Neurocomputation and Neural Networks courses. He also is the director of a Ph.D. degree course in Biometrics applied to security. He is currently Pro-Vice-Chancellor for students affairs of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His research interests range from biological neurocomputation to biometrics signal processing: keystroking biometrics, writer identification. He is co-founder and President of the Spanish Biometric Association (Asociación de Biometría Informática Española: ABIE).

Doroteo Torre Toledano received the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, in 1997, obtaining the best academic records of his class. In 2001, he completed the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the same university, receiving the Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Spanish Association of Telecommunication Engineers. He was with the Speech Technology Division, Telefonica R&D, from 1994 to 2001. From April 2001 to October 2002, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Spoken Language Systems Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science. After another period at the Speech Technology Division of Telefonica R&D, he moved in March 2004 to the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid as Assistant Professor. His current research interests include acoustic modeling, speaker recognition, natural language processing, spoken dialogue systems, and multimodal human-computer interaction. He has a number of national and international scientific publications in this field and has participated in several EU funded projects as well as Spanish national projects. He has also participated as a member of the scientific committee of several international conferences.

Daniel Ramos received his Ph.D. in Telecommunication Engineering in 2007 from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. After working for three years in the industry, since 2003 he is with ATVS - Biometric Recognition Group, and since 2006 works as an Assistant Professor at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. His research interests are focused on speech and signal processing, pattern recognition, biometrics, speaker and language recognition, statistics and forensic evaluation of the evidence. Dr. Ramos has participated in the development of the ATVS speaker and language recognition systems for several speaker and language reognition evaluations since 2004. He has been part of several organizing and scientific committees, including the Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop series, and has been recipient of several awards and distinctions, such as the IBM Research Best Student Paper Award at Odyssey 2006.

Julian Fierrez received the MSc and the PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 2001 and 2006, respectively, both from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. Since 2004 he is with Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where he is currently working as an assistant researcher. Starting in early 2007, he will be a visiting researcher at Michigan State University for 2 years, under a Marie Curie Fellowship. His research interests include signal and image processing, pattern recognition and biometrics. He is actively involved in European projects focused on biometrics (e.g, Biosecure NoE) and is the recipient of a number of distinctions, including: best poster award at AVBPA 2003, 2nd best signature verification system at SVC 2004, Rosina Ribalta award to the best Spanish PhD proposal in 2005, Motorola best student paper at ICB 2006, and EBF European Biometric Industry Award 2006.

Fernando Alonso-Fernandez received the M.S. degree in 2003 with Distinction and the Ph.D. degree "cum laude" in 2008, both in Electrical Engineering, from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. He is currently the recipient of a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship of the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science. His research interests include signal and image processing, pattern recognition and biometrics. He has published several journal and conference papers and he is actively involved in European projects focused on biometrics (e.g, Biosecure NoE, COST 2101). He has participated in the development of several systems for a number of biometric evaluations (e.g. SigComp 2009- Signature Competition, LivDet 2009-Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition or BMEC 2007-The Biosecure Multimodal Evaluation Campaign). Dr. Alonso-Fernandez has been invited researcher in the Signals and Systems group (University of Twente, The Netherlands), the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica (University of Cagliari, Italy), the Department of Electronics (University of Kent, United Kingdom) and the Dépt. Electronique et Physique (Institut National des Télécommunications, France).

Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez received his M.S. degree in Computer Science in 2005 from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. In 2005 he joined Biometric Recognition Group - ATVS at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (U.A.M) as a Ph. D. student. In 2007 he obtained the postgraduate Master in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from U.A.M and received a FPI research fellowship from Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia. His research interests are focused on robust speaker and language recognition. Mr. Gonzalez-Dominguez has participated in the development of the ATVS speaker and language recognition systems for several NIST speaker and language recognition evaluations and has participated on several related projects since 2005.

Javier Galbally received the MSc and degree in electrical engineering in 2005 from Universidad de Cantabria, Spain. In 2005 he joined the Biometrics Recognition Group - ATVS at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where he is currently working as an assistant researcher pursuing the PhD degree. His research interests include security and biometric systems evaluation based both on fingerprint and signature. He is currently involved in National and European projects focused on biometrics such as Biosecur-ID and the European Network of Excellence Biosecure.

Manuel R. Freire received his Engineering degree in Computer Science from Universidad Antonio de Nebrija in 2006 and his M.Sc. degree from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 2008. Since 2006 he is a research assistant at the Biometric Recognition Group - ATVS at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where he studies new applications in the field of biometrics and cryptography. He has participated in several European and Spanish research projects. He was awarded a Google Summer of Code grant in 2005 for the development of the open source cryptographic application BPG, mentored by the NetBSD Foundation. In 2007 he received a CPI research fellowship from Comunidad de Madrid.

Ignacio Lopez-Moreno received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009 from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM). He is currently pursuing his PhD degree with the Biometric Recognition Group - ATVS at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where he is working as an assistant researcher since 2004. He has participated several national projects and technology evaluations, such as NIST speaker and language recognition evaluations carried out since 2005. His research interests include speaker verification, language identification, pattern recognition, speech processing, statistics and forensic evaluation of the evidence. He has been recipient of several awards and distinctions, such as the IBM Research Best Student Paper in 2009.

Pedro Tome-Gonzalez received the MSc degree in Electrical Engineering in June 2008 in Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. At present he is pursuing the PhD studies. Since September of 2007, he is with the Biometric Recognition Group - ATVS at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where he is currently collaborating as an assistant researcher. His research interests include signal and image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision and biometrics. His current research focuses on biometrics on the move, using face and iris recognition.