Ramalingam Chellappa

Ramalingam "Rama" Chellappa
OccupationProfessor
Academic background
Alma materPurdue University
ThesisStochastic models in image analysis and processing (1981)
Doctoral advisorRangasami L. Kashyap

Ramalingam "Rama" Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, who works at Johns Hopkins University.[1][2] 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.[3] Before that, he was an assistant, associate professor, and later, director, of the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing institute.[4]

Ramalingam was born near Chennai, in Southern India.[3]

Education

Ramalingam received his PhD of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University,[5][6] as well as his MSEE.[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).[2][7][8]

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.[4]

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.[9]

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.[3]

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.[10]

Awards

Publications

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

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.

References

  1. ^ "Ramalingam Chellappa". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  2. ^ a b c "Rama Chellappa". Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Rama Chellappa". Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Rama Chellappa | UMIACS". www.umiacs.umd.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  5. ^ "OpenReview". OpenReview. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  6. ^ "Chellappa, Rama | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering". ece.umd.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  7. ^ "Chellappa, Rama | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering". ece.umd.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  8. ^ "Get to Know Chellappa". iapr.org. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  9. ^ "Rama Chellappa". rama.umiacs.io. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  10. ^ "Rama Chellappa". IEEE. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  11. ^ "Optica names recipients of 2024 Awards and Medals | Optica". www.optica.org. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
  12. ^ "Prof. Rama Chellappa named this year's recipient of IEEE's Jack S. Kirby Signal Processing Medal – Mathematical Institute for Data Science". www.minds.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-21.