Michael King envisions a day when usernames and passwords are no longer needed. King studies biometrics, the concept of automatically detecting unique characteristics of a person’s anatomy or behaviors, and hopes to propel society forward in its use of this technology.

“There have been questions to surface related to face recognition performance on people with darker skin. From our experiments, we were able to show that African Americans are more likely to be misidentified relative to their Caucasian counterparts. My goal is to enable highly accurate and seamless authentication technology that works for everyone,” said King.