Chellappa Named Inaugural Recipient of IEEE Biometrics Council Leadership Award

Rama Chellappa, Distinguished University Professor and chair of electrical and computer engineering with an appointment in UMIACS, is the inaugural recipient of the IEEE Biometrics Council Leadership Award.

The award honors outstanding leadership from IEEE members involved in biometrics, which is the measurement and statistical analysis of people’s physical and behavioral characteristics. This includes voice, fingerprint, iris, face, handwriting, gait and other modalities, as well as multi-modal biometrics and new biometrics based on novel sensing technologies.

Chellappa’s expertise is in signal and image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, multi-dimension stochastic processes, statistical interference, image analysis, robust and secure biometrics, and artificial intelligence in computer vision.

He will be recognized with the award on Sept. 6 in Buffalo, New York at the IEEE Eighth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS 2016).

To see an overview of Chellappa’s work in computer vision, facial and gait recognition, and active authentication, go here.