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Svetlana Yanushkevich is a prominent researcher whose work sits at the intersection of biometrics, human-machine interaction, and intelligent decision support systems. Over nearly two decades, she has made sustained contributions to understanding how biometric technologies can be integrated into complex, high-stakes environments — from security checkpoints and border crossings to autonomous robotics and epidemiological surveillance. Her most influential work, "Risk, Trust, and Bias: Causal Regulators of Biometric-Enabled Decision Support" (2020, 17 citations), establishes a critical framework for evaluating the reliability and fairness of biometric systems, identifying risk, trust, and bias as fundamental regulators of performance. This contribution is particularly timely given growing global concerns about algorithmic fairness. Her earlier work on semantic frameworks for biometric access control (2006) and biometric intelligence in authentication machines (2014) laid important groundwork for designing smarter, more human-aware interfaces. Yanushkevich has also explored behavioral biometrics and "talking face" technologies as bridges between human and machine cognition. Her most recent research on stress contagion in human-robot teams (2023) signals an exciting expansion into sociotechnical systems. Her body of work reflects a visionary commitment to making biometric systems not only more accurate, but more ethical, adaptive, and human-centered.