Woodward Chairs Panel on Facial Recognition Technologies

On October 5, 2021, John D. Woodward Jr., Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, chaired and moderated a panel on face recognition technologies at the Connect: ID Conference, held in Washington, D.C.  

The panel featured Stephanie Schuckers, Director, Center For Identification Technology Research (Citer), Clarkson University; Arun Vemury, Director, Biometric And Identity Technology Center, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Edwin Coello, a Sergeant in the New York City Police Department; and Patrick Grother, Biometrics Evaluator, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Topics discussed included emerging issues in facial recognition, public perceptions of the technology, facial recognition in government use cases, and policy concerns.

Learn more about the Connect: ID Conference online.

John D. Woodward, Jr. is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. During his twenty-year CIA career, John served as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington D.C., East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. His publications include Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age (McGraw-Hill, 2003) and Army Biometric Applications: Identifying and Addressing Sociocultural Concerns (RAND, 2001). Read more about Professor Woodward on his faculty profile.

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