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Anil Jain
University Distinguished Professor
Research Interests
  • biometrics
  • computer vision
  • pattern recognition
Research Biography

Anil Jain’s research interests include pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition. His articles on biometrics have appeared in Scientific American, Nature, IEEE Spectrum, Scholarpedia, and MIT Technology Review. He has received a number of awards, including Guggenheim fellowship, Humboldt Research award, Fulbright fellowship, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement award (2003), W. Wallace McDowell award (2007), IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize (2008), and ICDM 2008 Research Contribution Award. He holds six patents and is the author of several books.

Selected Publications
  • A. K. Jain and S. Pankanti, "A Touch of Money", IEEE Spectrum, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 22-27, July 2006.
  • A. K. Jain and S. Pankanti, "Beyond Fingerprinting," Scientific American, pp. 78-81, Sept. 2008.
  • A. K. Jain, "Biometric Recognition: Q & A," Nature, vol. 449, pp. 38-40, Sept. 2007.
  • A. K. Jain, P. Flynn, and A. A. Ross, (Eds.), "Handbook of Biometrics," Springer, 2007.
Selected Achievements and Awards
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1991
  • University Distinguished Professor