Anil Jain

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