Lambert Sonna Momo (born 1970 in
Yaoundé
Yaoundé (; , ) is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of more than 2.8 million, the second-largest city in the country after the port city Douala. It lies in the Centre Region of the nation at an elevation of about 750 metres (2,50 ...
) is a Swiss computer scientist of Cameroonian origin. He is known for his work in electronic identification and authentication through biometrics.
Education
After obtaining a bachelor's degree in
mathematics
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at the
University of Yaoundé
The University of Yaoundé (french: Université de Yaoundé) was a university in Cameroon, located in Yaoundé, the country's capital.
It was built with the help of France and opened in 1962 as the Federal University of Yaoundé, dropping the "Fe ...
in 1993, he continued his studies with two master's degrees at the
EPFL in Lausanne in
software engineering
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(2001) and in
information systems
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(2003).
He obtained his doctorate in information and security systems at the
University of Lausanne
The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...
in 2008 for a thesis on "Elaboration de tableaux de bord SSI dynamiques: une approche à base d'ontologies" (Developing dynamic ISS dashboards: an ontology-based approach) under supervision of
Solange Ghernaouti-Hélie.
Career
Academic career
Until 2014, he taught at University of Lausanne on topics related to computer security and the protection of private data.
In 2016, he assembled a multidisciplinary team composed of biometrics specialist Sébastien Marcel at
Idiap Research Institute; cryptographer
Serge Vaudenay
Serge Vaudenay (born 5 April 1968) is a French cryptographer and professor, director of the Communications Systems Section at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Serge Vaudenay entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris as a '' ...
, director of the EPFL's Security and Cryptography Laboratory, electronics engineer
Pierre Roduit at
HES SO Valais Wallis, and microtechnologist
Eric Grenet at Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology. This team jointly developed BioID and BioLocker, a patented biometric authentication technology based on multi-view vein scanningthat combines data security and respect for private sphere protection.
Entrepreneurship
He is the founder of GLOBAL ID SA, a spin-off of EPFL that brings vein-based biometric authentication technology to the market.
The biometric technology based on
vein recognition is considered ethical because the key is hidden and therefore impossible to steal; the encryption is done end-to-end with a random code that changes constantly.
The contactless scanner is under development and the project has received a grant of 1 million from the Swiss Confederation.
Lambert Sonna Momo is the Inventor of the VenoScanner.
Publications
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References
External links
* Website o
Global-ID* Website o
Idiap Research Institute* Website o
LASEC-EPFL
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1970 births
Living people
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni
University of Lausanne alumni
Yaounde II
People from Yaoundé
Academic staff of the University of Lausanne