Ramalingam "Rama" Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, who works at

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. At Johns Hopkins University, he is a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, the Center for Imaging Science, the Institute for Assured Autonomy, and the Mathematical Institute for Data Sciences. He joined Johns Hopkins University after 29 years at The University of Maryland. Before that, he was an assistant, associate professor, and later, director, of the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing institute. Ramalingam was born near

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, in Southern India.

Education

Ramalingam received his

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Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

Purdue University Purdue University is a Public university#United States, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded ...

, as well as his MSEE. He has a Master of Engineering (Distinction) of Electrical and Communication Engineering from The Indian Institute of Science (1977), and a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) of Electrical and Communication Engineering from The University of Madras (1975).

Work at The University of Southern California

During Ramalingam's time at the University of Southern California, he was worked at the Signal and Image Processing institute, as an assistant from 1981 to 1986, associate professor during 1986 to 1991, and director during 1988 to 1990.

Work at The University of Maryland

During his time at The University of Maryland, Ramalingam Chellappa was a professor of The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Permanent Member of UMIACS, as well as an affiliate professor at The Department of Computer Science.

Work at Johns Hopkins University

Ramalingam currently works at

, and is researching

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

facial recognition Facial recognition or face recognition may refer to: *Face detection, often a step done before facial recognition *Face perception, the process by which the human brain understands and interprets the face *Pareidolia, which involves, in part, seein ...

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

motion capture Motion capture (sometimes referred as mocap or mo-cap, for short) is the process of recording high-resolution motion (physics), movement of objects or people into a computer system. It is used in Military science, military, entertainment, sports ...

, and

computer imaging Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is a specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in art, printed media, simulators, videos and video games. These images are either static (i.e. still images) or dyna ...

. He is a Life Fellow of

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, and a Fellow of

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, AAAS, ACM, AIMBE, IAPR, NAI and Optica and served as the President of the

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, a distinguished lecturer of the

IEEE Signal Processing Society The IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) is one of the nearly 40 technical societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the first one created. Its mission is to "advance and disseminate state-of-the-art scie ...

, and holds 9 patents.

Awards

* Edwin H. Land Medal (2024 Recipient) *

IEEE Computer Society PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office i ...

(2023 Recipient) *

Washington Academy of Sciences Washington most commonly refers to: * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States * Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A m ...

(2023 Distinguished Career Award Recipinet) *

National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American Nonprofit organization, nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. It is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), along with the National Academ ...

(2023 Member) *

IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal is presented "for outstanding achievements in signal processing" theory, technology or commerce. The recipients of this award will receive a gold medal, together with a replica in bronze, a certifica ...

(2020 Recipient) *

Award *

(Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards) *

NSF NSF may stand for: Political organizations *National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party *NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party * National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political g ...

Presidential Young Investigator Award The Presidential Young Investigator Award (PYI) was awarded by the National Science Foundation of the United States Federal Government. The program operated from 1984 to 1991, and was replaced by the NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Awards and Preside ...

* IBM Faculty Development Award (4 in total) *

International Association for Pattern Recognition The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), is an international association of organizations dedicated to computer vision or pattern recognition. It only admits one organization per country or territory. Individual people partic ...

King-Sun Fu Prize Award, Best Paper Awards (2 in total) * IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards * Office of Technology Commercialization Outstanding Innovator Award

Publications

Chellappa has published more than 750 peer-reviewed articles in top journals. He has an h-index of 143.
Pubmed citations

Google Scholar citations

Books

* ''Can We Trust AI?'',

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2022

Highly Cited Articles

* 2003, W Zhao, R Chellappa, PJ Phillips, A Rosenfeld, ''Face Recognition: A Literature Survey'', in ''ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)''. Vol. 35 nº4, 399-458. * 1995, R Chellappa, CL Wilson, S Sirohey, ''Human and Machine Recognition of Faces: A Survey'', in ''Proceedings of the IEEE''. Vol. 83, nº5, 705-741. * 2008, P Turaga, R Chellappa, VS Subrahmanian, O Udrea, ''Machine Recognition of Human Activities: A Survey'', in ''IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology''. Vol. 18 nº11, 1473-1488. * 1997, K Etemad, R Chellappa, ''Discriminant Analysis for Recognition of Human Face Images'', in ''Journal of the Optical Society of America.'' Vol. 14 nº8, 1724-1733.

References

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