Biographical Sketch :
Mohammad Omar Derawi
PhD. Eng. Mohammad Omar Derawi
Norwegian Information Security Laboratory
Gjøvik University College
Teknologiveien 22
2815 Gjøvik, Norway
Mohammad Omar Derawi received his diplomas in Computer Science engineering from the Technical University of Denmark where he received both a BSc (2007) and Msc (2009) degree. In addition he received the title as the youngest engineer of Denmark in 2009. Derawi has a PhD in information security from the Norwegian Information Security Laboratory (NISLab), Gjøvik University College (Norway). In the beginning of his PhD studies, he was a visiting researcher at the “Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt” (CASED, www.cased.de), Germany for an 8 months period. His current research interest includes biometrics with specialization on gait recognition in mobile devices and currently active in the 7th Framework European project “TrUsted Revocable Biometric IdeNtitiEs” (TURBINE, www.turbine-project.eu). Other main interests of areas include keystroke dynamics and fingerprint recognition.