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Dr. Nathaniel J. Short received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Formerly, he was a Senior Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He conducts research and development in computer vision, image processing, and machine learning, previously supporting government organizations within the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Justice (DoJ), and the Intelligence Community (IC). His experience includes research, development, test, evaluation and prototyping of imaging systems for unmanned vehicles, multi-biometric solutions for mobile and traditional assets, as well as developing next-generation human identification technology to support forensic and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) applications. He has numerous peer-reviewed publications in the fields of biometrics, computer vision, and optics and has co-organized multiple technical workshops and tutorials covering cutting-edge technology in these areas. He holds four patents related to biometric recognition and security and has received multiple grants and awards, including a JHU APL Propulsion Grant and Best Paper Awards at highly competitive, academic-level biometrics and computer vision conferences.