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Ramalingam Chellappa

{{Short description|Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering}}{{Infobox academic

| name = Ramalingam "Rama" Chellappa

| occupation = Professor

| alma_mater = Purdue University

| thesis_title = Stochastic models in image analysis and processing

| thesis_year = 1981

| doctoral_advisor = Rangasami L. Kashyap

}}

Ramalingam "Rama" Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, who works at Johns Hopkins University.{{Cite web |title=Ramalingam Chellappa |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L60tuywAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=scholar.google.com}}{{Cite web |title=Rama Chellappa |url=https://www.bme.jhu.edu/people/faculty/rama-chellappa/ |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Rama Chellappa |url=https://engineering.jhu.edu/ece/faculty/rama-chellappa/ |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |language=en}} Before that, he was an assistant, associate professor, and later, director, of the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing institute.{{Cite web |title=Rama Chellappa {{!}} UMIACS |url=https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/people/rama |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=www.umiacs.umd.edu |language=en}}

Ramalingam was born near Chennai, in Southern India.

Education

Ramalingam received his PhD of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University,{{Cite web |title=OpenReview |url=https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Rama_Chellappa1 |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=OpenReview |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Chellappa, Rama {{!}} Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |url=https://ece.umd.edu/clark/faculty/369/Rama-Chellappa |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=ece.umd.edu}} 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).{{Cite web |title=Chellappa, Rama {{!}} Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |url=https://ece.umd.edu/clark/faculty/369/Rama-Chellappa |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=ece.umd.edu}}{{Cite web |title=Get to Know Chellappa |url=https://iapr.org/members/newsletter/Newsletter13-01/index_files/Page751.htm |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=iapr.org}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Rama Chellappa |url=https://rama.umiacs.io/ |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=rama.umiacs.io}}

Work at Johns Hopkins University

Ramalingam currently works at Johns Hopkins University, and is researching artificial intelligence, facial recognition, machine learning, motion capture, and computer imaging.

He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, AIMBE, IAPR, NAI and Optica and served as the President of the IEEE Biometrics Council, a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and holds 9 patents.{{Cite web |title=Rama Chellappa |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37274537000 |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=IEEE}}

Awards

Publications

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

  • [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Chellappa+R&cauthor_id=15449579 Pubmed citations]
  • [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L60tuywAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar citations]

= Books =

= 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.

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Category:Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence