Jitendra Malik

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1960|10|11}}

| birth_place = Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India

| nationality = Indian American

| fields = Computer Science

| workplaces = University of California, Berkeley

| education = St. Aloysius Senior Secondary School
IIT Kanpur {{small|(1980, BTech)}}
Stanford University {{small|(1985, PhD)}}

| doctoral_advisor = Thomas Binford

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| known_for = Computer vision

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PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award (2013)
Allen Newell Award (2016)
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in AI (2018)
Computer Pioneer Award (2019)
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Jitendra Malik (born 11 October 1960) is an Indian-American academic who is the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

He is known for his research in computer vision.

Academic biography

Malik was born in Mathura, India, on October 11, 1960.{{cite journal|title=Scale-Space and Edge Detection Using Anisotropic Diffusion |url=http://image.diku.dk/imagecanon/material/PeronaMalik1990.pdf|journal=IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence}} He did his schooling from Jabalpur, at the St. Aloysius Senior Secondary School. He received the BTech degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1980 and the PhD degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1985. In January 1986, he joined the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently the Arthur J. Chick Professor in the Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS).[https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/malik.html Biography] from UC Berkeley EECS Faculty Homepages, retrieved 2014-03-22. He is also on the faculty of the department of Bioengineering, and the Cognitive Science and Vision Science groups. He served as the chair of the Computer Science Division during 2002–2004 and as the department chair of EECS during 2004–2006 and 2016–2017. Since January 2018, he is also the research director and site lead of Facebook AI Research[https://research.fb.com/category/facebook-ai-research/ Facebook AI Research][https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/07/facebook-ai-research-expands/ Facebook newsroom] in Menlo Park, where he leads a team of researchers and engineers in computer vision, machine learning and robotics.

Research

Malik's research group has worked on many different topics in computer vision, computational modeling of human vision, computer graphics and the analysis of biological images. He has mentored over 60 PhD students and postdoctoral fellows,[http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~malik/ Jitendra Malik’s Home Page], retrieved 2019-05-07 a number of whom hold faculty appointments at major universities in the US—including MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, Caltech, Cornell, UIUC, U. Penn, and U. Michigan—and around the world. Several well-known concepts and algorithms arose in this research, such as anisotropic diffusion, normalized cuts, high dynamic range imaging, shape context and R-CNN.{{cite book|last1=Ross|first1=Girshick|title=2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |chapter=Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation |date=2014|chapter-url=https://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2014/papers/Girshick_Rich_Feature_Hierarchies_2014_CVPR_paper.pdf|publisher=IEEE|pages=580–587|doi=10.1109/CVPR.2014.81|arxiv=1311.2524|isbn=978-1-4799-5118-5|s2cid=215827080}} According to Google Scholar, his works have been cited over 150,000 times with h-index of 124, i10-index of 278 and over 20 of his papers have received more than a thousand citations each.[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oY9R5YQAAAAJ Google Scholar citations for Jitendra Malik] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111115838/https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oY9R5YQAAAAJ |date=11 November 2022 }}, retrieved 2019-05-07. He is one of ISI's Highly Cited Researchers in engineering.[http://highlycited.com/names/M.html ISI Highly Cited Researchers], retrieved 2014-03-22. He has served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize from 2019.{{Cite web|title=Infosys Prize - Jury 2020|url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/jury/jury-2020.asp#Engineering-and-Computer-Science|access-date=2020-12-09|website=www.infosys-science-foundation.com}}

He received the gold medal for the best graduating student in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1980 and a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989. At UC Berkeley, he was selected for the Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in teaching in 2000,[http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Awards/teaching.shtml UC Berkeley EECS Teaching Awards], retrieved 2014-03-22. a Miller Research Professorship in 2001,[http://millerinstitute.berkeley.edu/all.php?nav=20#M Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004071516/http://millerinstitute.berkeley.edu/all.php?nav=20 |date=2011-10-04 }}, past and present Miller professors, retrieved 2014-03-22. and appointed to be the Arthur J. Chick Professor in 2002. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur in 2008. He was awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2007 and 2008 and the Helmholtz Prize{{Cite web |url=https://tc.computer.org/tcpami/helmholtz-prize/ |title=ICCV Helmholtz Prize |access-date=8 May 2019 |archive-date=8 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508011401/https://tc.computer.org/tcpami/helmholtz-prize/ |url-status=dead }} twice in 2015 for contributions that have stood the test of time (awarded to papers after 10 years of publication). He is a fellow of the IEEE,[https://www.ieee.org/membership/fellows/fellows-directory.html IEEE Fellows Directory], retrieved 2014-03-22. the ACM,[http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/malik_5874904.cfm ACM Fellows, United States, 2008] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[http://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/alphalist2013.pdf 2013 AAAS Fellows] and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[http://www.nae.edu/Activities/MediaRoom/20095/42133.aspx NAE Elects 68 Members and Nine Foreign Associates], Release Date: 8 February 2011. and the National Academy of Sciences.[https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/15-uc-scholars-elected-national-academy-sciences 15 UC scholars elected to National Academy of Sciences], University of California Newsroom, 28 April 2015, accessed 2018-09-03. He is also the recipient of the PAMI-TC Distinguished Researcher Award (2013)[http://www.iccv2013.org/awards.php ICCV 2013 Awards], retrieved 2014-03-22. the K.S. Fu Prize (2014),[https://www.iapr.org/fellowsandawards/awards_kingsunfu.php K.S. Fu Prize] the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award (2016){{cite web|title=ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award|url=http://awards.acm.org/newell/award-winners|website=ACM Awards|publisher=ACM|accessdate=11 April 2017|language=en}} the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in AI (2018).{{cite web|title=IJCAI Award for Research Excellence 2018|url=http://www.ijcai-18.org/awards/index.html|language=en}} He was awarded the 2019 IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award{{cite web|title=IEEE Computer Pioneer Award|date=2 April 2019 |url=https://www.computer.org/press-room/2019-news/2019-ieee-computer-society-computer-pioneer-award-malik|publisher=IEEE Computer Society|language=en}} for his "leading role in developing Computer Vision into a thriving discipline through pioneering research, leadership, and mentorship".