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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ramalingam Chellappa |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L60tuywAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref> Before that, he was an assistant, associate professor, and later, director, of the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing institute.<ref name=":1">{{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}}</ref>

Ramalingam was born near Chennai, in Southern India.<ref name=":0" />

== Education == Ramalingam received his PhD of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University,<ref>{{Cite web |title=OpenReview |url=https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Rama_Chellappa1 |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=OpenReview |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> as well as his MSEE.<ref name=":2" /> 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).<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

== 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.<ref name=":1" />

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

== 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.<ref name=":0" />

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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rama Chellappa |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37274537000 |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=IEEE}}</ref>

== Awards == * Edwin H. Land Medal (2024 Recipient)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Optica names recipients of 2024 Awards and Medals {{!}} Optica |url=https://www.optica.org/about/newsroom/news_releases/2024/march/optica_names_20_recipients_of_2024_awards_and_medals/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=www.optica.org}}</ref> * IEEE Computer Society PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award (2023 Recipient) * Washington Academy of Sciences (2023 Distinguished Career Award Recipinet) * National Academy of Engineering (2023 Member) * IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2020 Recipient)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof. Rama Chellappa named this year's recipient of IEEE's Jack S. Kirby Signal Processing Medal – Mathematical Institute for Data Science |url=https://www.minds.jhu.edu/2020/08/14/prof-rama-chellappa-named-this-years-recipient-of-ieees-jack-s-kirby-signal-processing-medal/ |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=www.minds.jhu.edu}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> * IEEE Signal Processing Society Award<ref name=":0" /> * IEEE Signal Processing Society (Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards) * NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award<ref name=":1" /> * IBM Faculty Development Award (4 in total)<ref name=":1" /> * International Association for Pattern Recognition King-Sun Fu Prize Award, Best Paper Awards (2 in total)<ref name=":1" /> * IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards<ref name=":1" /> * Office of Technology Commercialization Outstanding Innovator Award<ref name=":1" />

== 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 ===

* ''Can We Trust AI?'', Johns Hopkins University Press 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.

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