Narendra Ahuja | |
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| Alma mater | University of Maryland, College Park Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore BITS Pilani |
| Known for | Face detection,Motion planning,Pattern Recognition |
| Awards | IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1999) IEEE Fellow (1992) ACM Fellow (1996) Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984) AAAI Fellow (1992) SPIE Technology Achievement Award (1998) |
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| Fields | Computer science,Computer vision,Artificial Intelligence,Robotics |
| Institutions | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad |
| Thesis | Mosaic Models for Image Analysis and Synthesis (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Azriel Rosenfeld |
| Doctoral students | Dorothea Blostein Ming-Hsuan Yang |
Narendra Ahuja is anIndian-American computer scientist and the Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus in Engineering at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His research primarily concernscomputer vision andpattern recognition.[1]
Ahuja earned a bachelor's degree in 1972 from theBirla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS Pilani) in India. He earned a master's degree in 1974 from theIndian Institute of Science, and completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 1979 from theUniversity of Maryland, College Park, advised byAzriel Rosenfeld.[1] In addition to his work at the University of Illinois, he was founding director of theInternational Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad from 1999 to 2002.[1]
Ahuja was the 1998 recipient of theSPIE Technology Achievement Award,[2] and the 1999 recipient of theIEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award "for contributions to computer vision and image processing".[3]The professional societies in which he is afellow include theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science,Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence,Association for Computing Machinery,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,International Association for Pattern Recognition, andInternational Society for Optical Engineering.[1]
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