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.[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.
Ramalingam received his PhD of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University,[5] [6] 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).[7] [8]
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.
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]
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.[10]
Chellappa has published more than 750 peer-reviewed articles in top journals. He has an h-index of 143.