Anil K. Jain (computer scientist, born 1948)

Anil Kumar Jain (born August 5, 1948[1]) is an Indian-American computer scientist and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Michigan State University, known for his contributions in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition.[2][3] Based on his Google Scholar profile, he has an h-index of 201,[4] which is the highest among computer scientists identified in a survey published by UCLA.[5]

Not to be confused with Anil K. Jain (electrical engineer, born 1946).
Anil Kumar Jain
Portrait of Anil K. Jain
Born (1948-08-05) August 5, 1948
Basti, India
Awards
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisSome Aspects of Dimensionality and Sample Size Problems in Statistical Pattern Recognition (1979)
Doctoral advisorRobert B. McGhee
Academic work
DisciplinePattern recognition, computer vision, biometrics
Institutions

Biography

Born in India, Anil K. Jain received his Bachelor of Technology in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1969. He received his MS and PhD from the Ohio State University in 1970 and 1973, respectively. His PhD advisor was Robert B. McGhee, and his PhD thesis was titled "Some Aspects of Dimensionality and Sample Size Problems in Statistical Pattern Recognition". Jain taught at Wayne State University from 1972 to 1974 and joined the faculty of Michigan State University in 1974, where he is currently a University Distinguished Professor.

Jain is an ISI Highly Cited researcher. In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and Indian National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to the engineering and practice of biometrics". In 2007, he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award, the highest technical honor awarded by the IEEE Computer Society, for his pioneering contributions to theory, technique, and practice of pattern recognition, computer vision, and biometric recognition systems. He has also received numerous other awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Humboldt Research Award, IAPR Pierre Devijver Award, Fulbright Fellowship, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement award, IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize, and IEEE ICDM Research Contribution Award. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS,[6] IAPR and SPIE. He also received best paper awards from the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1996) and the Pattern Recognition journal (1987, 1991, and 2005).

He served as a member of the U.S. National Academies panels on Information Technology, Whither Biometrics and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). He also served as a member of the Defense Science Board, Forensic Science Standards Board, and AAAS Latent Fingerprint Working Group. In 2019, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[7]

Anil Jain was conferred Doctor Honoris Causa by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2021 and by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2018.

Selected publications

Books
  • 1988. Algorithms For Clustering Data. With Richard C. Dubes. Prentice Hall.
  • 1993. Markov Random Fields: Theory and Applications. With Rama Chellappa eds. Academic Press.
  • 1999. Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society. With Ruud M. Bolle and Sharath Pankanti eds. Springer.
  • 2003. Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition. (2nd edition 2008). With D. Maio, D. Maltoni, S. Prabhakar. Springer.
  • 2005. Handbook of Face Recognition. (2nd edition 2011). With S. Z. Li ed. Springer.
  • 2006. Handbook of Multibiometrics. With A. Ross and K. Nandakumar. Springer.
  • 2007. Handbook of Biometrics. With P. Flynn and A. Ross eds. Springer.
  • 2011. Introduction to Biometrics. With A. Ross and K. Nandakumar. Springer.
  • 2015. Encyclopedia of Biometrics (Second Edition). With Stan Li. Springer.

Research articles

Survey articles

References
  1. Jain, Anil Kumar (1973). Some Aspects of Dimensionality and Sample Size Problems in Statistical Pattern Recognition. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
  2. Anil K. Jain homepage at Michigan State University. Accessed September 9, 2013.
  3. Anil K. Jain at DBLP Bibliography Server
  4. Anil K. Jain publications indexed by Google Scholar
  5. Palsberg, Jens, The h index for computer science, UCLA Dept. of Computer Science, October 28, 2014. Accessed January 6, 2015.
  6. "AAAS Fellows" (PDF). AAAS.org. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
  7. "Elected Members of The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019".
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