Pankaj Shivdayal Wasnik successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Robust Biometrics on Smartphones – Using Quality Assessment, Presentation Attack Detection, and Biometric Fusion" on May 8th of 2019. 

Pankaj Shivdayal Wasnik carried out his PhD work at the Department of Computer Science/ Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, NTNU. His main supervisor has been professor Raghavendra Ramachnadra, NTNU. Co-supervisor was Professor Christoph Busch, NTNU.

The following committee has been appointed to evaluate his thesis, trial lecture and defense:

• 1. opponent:Associate Professor Maria De Marsico, Department of Computer Science Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• 2. opponent:Professor Martin Drahanský, Department of Intelligent Systems, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.
• Administrator: Associate Professor Sule Yildirim Yayilgan, Dep. of Information Security and Communication Technology, NTNU