New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has signed a five-year joint research and development agreement with the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) to strengthen the robustness, security and reliability of Aadhaar operations through data-driven innovations, an official statement said.

The collaboration will focus on areas such as fraud and anomaly detection, development of biometric liveness detection tools, identification of high-risk enrolment and update categories, improvements in biometric matching algorithms, and other priority areas.

The agreement was signed by UIDAI Deputy Director General (Technology Centre) Tanusree Deb Barma and ISI Bengaluru Centre Head B S Daya Sagar, in the presence of UIDAI CEO Bhuvnesh Kumar and Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Additional Secretary Puja Singh Mandol.

“Our collaboration with the Indian Statistical Institute is a step towards building advanced, secure and citizen-centric innovation,” Kumar said.