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Dr. Oleg V Komogortsev

  • Regents' Professor - Computer Science
Portrait of Dr. Oleg V Komogortsev

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Computer Science

Kent State University, 2007

Master's Degree

MS in Computer Science

Kent State University, 2003

Patents

  • “Health Assessment via Eye Movement Biometrics.” Oleg Komogortsev. Regular.
    Date applied: 10/2016, Date awarded: 2021
  • “Detection of print-based spoofing attacks.” Oleg Komogortsev. Regular, #10,740,465.
    Date of renewal: 2020
  • “Person Identification Using Ocular Biometrics with Liveness Detection.” Oleg Komogortsev. Regular, #US patent 9811730.
    Date awarded: 11/07/2017
  • Boivin, Michael (Principal), Komogortsev, Oleg (Co-Principal), Sikorski, Alla (Co-Principal). Caregiver Early Child Development Training for Preventing Konzo from Toxic Cassava in the DR Congo, National Institute of Health, Federal, $225000. (Funded: September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2021). Grant.
  • Komogortsev, Oleg, Griffith, Henry Keith, Geerts, Wilhelmus J. iSTATE: An Augmented Reality Platform Technology for Eye Tracking-Based Human State Assessment, Texas State University, Texas State University, $10000. (Funded: April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020). Grant.
  • Komogortsev, Oleg (Principal). SaTC: CORE: Small: Eye Movement Biometrics in Virtual and Augmented Reality, National Science Foundation, Federal, $499988. (Funded: October 2017 - September 2022). Grant.
  • Komogortsev, Oleg. Achieving Fingerprint Level Performance with Eye Movement-based Biometrics, National Institute of Standards, National Institute of Standards, $100000. (Funded: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2019). Grant.
  • Komogortsev, Oleg. A Hybrid Technique for Eye-tracking on Wearable Headsets for 3-D/VR Interaction, Person Recognition and Health Screening, Google, Industry, $100000. (Funded: April 1, 2016 - April 1, 2018). Grant.
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  • Komogortsev, O., & Lohr, D. (2022). Eye Know You Too: Toward Viable End-to-End Eye Movement Biometrics for User Authentication. Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 3151–3164. https://doi.org/0.1109/TIFS.2022.3201369
  • Griffith, H. K., Katrychuk, D., & Komogortsev, O. (2019). Assessment of Shift-Invariant CNN Gaze Mappings for PS-OG Eye Movement Sensors.
  • Reppert, T., Rigas, I., Herzfeld, D., Sedaghat-Nejad, E., Komogortsev, O., & Shadmehr, R. (2018). Movement vigor as a trait-like attribute of individuality. Journal of Neurophysiology, 120(2), 741–757.
  • Rigas, I., Raffle, H., & Komogortsev, O. (2018). Photosensor Oculography: Survey and Parametric Analysis of Designs Using Model-Based Simulation. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, PP(99), 741–757.
  • Friedman, L., Nixon, M., & Komogortsev, O. (2017). Method to assess the temporal persistence of potential biometric features: Application to oculomotor, gait, face and brain structure databases. PloS One.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Regents' Professor, Texas State University. November 2025 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Distinguished Professor, Texas State University. April 2025 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Keynote Speaker for ACM SIGCHI SIGGRAPH Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium (ETRA 2019). June 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Keynote Speaker for IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2019). June 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Google Global Faculty Research Award, Google. February 2019
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  1. Other

    NSF Trustworthy and Secure Cyberspace (SaTC)

  2. Reviewer / Referee

    German Research Foundation

  3. Other

    TRUST-XR 2025 Workshop at IEEE ISMAR 2025 conference

  4. Member

    Personnel Committee

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium

  6. Reviewer / Referee

    NSF Trustworthy and Secure Cyberspace (SaTC)

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