Biography

Education

Work Experience

Organizations

1. Eta Kappa Nu, Member.
2. Tau Beta Pi, Member.
3. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Fellow, Jan. 1, 1992.
4. International Association for Pattern Recognition, Fellow, Aug. 1996.
   
5. Optical Society of America, Fellow, 2008.
6. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow,  2011.
7. Association for Computing Machines, Fellow,  2014.

Biography

    Prof. Rama Chellappa received the B.E. (Hons.) degree from the University of Madras, Madras, India, in 1975, the M.E. (Distinction) degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 1977, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1978 and 1981, respectively. Since 1991, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and an affiliate Professor of Computer Science with the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also affiliated with the Center for Automation Research (Director) and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (Permanent Member). In 2005, he was named a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he was an Assistant (1981–1986) and Associate Professor (1986–1991) and Director of the Signal and Image Processing Institute (1988–1990) with the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Over the last 30 years, he has published numerous book chapters, peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He has coauthored and coedited books on MRFs, face and gait recognition and collected works on image processing and analysis. He has served as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Graphical Models and Image Processing. His current research interests are face and gait analysis, markerless motion capture, 3-D modeling from video, image and video-based recognition and exploitation, compressive sensing, and hyper spectral processing.   

    Prof. Chellappa has received several awards, including a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, four IBM Faculty Development Awards, an Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Engineering at USC, and two paper awards from the International Association of Pattern Recognition. He received the Society, Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He also received the Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Computer Society. At the University of Maryland, he was elected as a Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow, as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, received the Outstanding Faculty Research Award and the Poole and Kent Teaching Award for the Senior Faculty from the College of Engineering, an Outstanding Innovator Award from the Office of Technology Commercialization and an Outstanding GEMSTONE Mentor Award. In 2010, he was recognized as an Outstanding ECE by Purdue University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the International Association for Pattern Recognition and the Optical Society of America. He has served as an associate editor for four IEEE publications and as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE. He served as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors and as its Vice President of Awards and Membership. He has served as a General and Technical Program Chair for several IEEE international and national conferences and workshops. He is a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society and served a two-year term as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Recently, he completed a two-year term as the President of IEEE Biometrics Council.