Anil K. Jain (computer scientist, born 1948)

Anil Kumar Jain
Portrait of Anil K. Jain
Born	1948 (age 75–76) Basti, India
Awards	Distinguished Alumni Award, IIT Kanpur (2017) Member, National Academy of Engineering (2016) Foreign Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (2016) IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize (2008) IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award (2007) IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement award (2003) IAPR Pierre Devijver Award (2002) Humboldt Research Award (2002) Guggenheim Fellowship (2001) Fulbright Fellowship (1998)
Academic background
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Ohio State University
Thesis	Some Aspects of Dimensionality and Sample Size Problems in Statistical Pattern Recognition (1979)
Doctoral advisor	Robert B. McGhee
Academic work
Discipline	Pattern recognition, computer vision, biometrics
Institutions	Michigan State University Wayne State University

Anil Kumar Jain (born 1948^[1]) is an Indian-American computer scientist and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Michigan State University, known for his contributions in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition.^[2][3] He is among the top few most highly cited researchers in computer science and has received various high honors and recognitions from institutions such as ACM, IEEE, AAAS, IAPR, SPIE, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.