J. K. Aggarwal
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- IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize (2004)
- Senior Research Award ASEE (1992)
- Okawa Prize Okawa Foundation (2007)
- Technical Achievement award IEEE Computer Society (1996)
- Graduate Teaching award University of Texas at Austin (1992)
- Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award IEEE (2005)
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Jagdishkumar Keshoram Aggarwal[1] (born 1936) is an American computer scientist, who is currently retired and is Cullen Trust Endowed Emeritus Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. He is known for his contributions in the fields of computer vision, pattern recognition and image processing focusing on human motion and activities.[2][3] He served in various positions in the Department of Electrical and Computer of the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions.
A Fellow of IEEE (1976), IAPR (1998) and AAAS (2005), he received the Senior Research Award of the American Society of Engineering Education in 1992, the 1996 Technical Achievement Award[4] of the IEEE Computer Society, and the graduate teaching award at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992.[5][6] More recently, he is the recipient of the 2004 King-Sun Fu Prize of the International Association for Pattern Recognition,[7] the 2005 Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award of the IEEE,[8] and the 2007 Okawa Prize[9] of the Okawa Foundation of Japan.[10] He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a Golden Core member of IEEE Computer Society. He has authored and edited a number of books, chapters, proceedings of conferences, and papers.[3] According to his Google Scholar profile, he has an h-index of 86.[11]
J. K. Aggarwal received his Bachelor of Science in 1957 from the University of Bombay, Bombay. He received a Bachelor of Engineering in 1960 from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool. He obtained his MS (1961) and PhD (1964) from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign under Nelson Wax.[12] Since then, he has served in various positions as delineated below.
- Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, September 1990 – 2014.
- John J. McKetta Energy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, September 1981–August 1990.
- Visiting Professor, Media Lab. MIT Spring 1995.
- Visiting Professor, Kobe University, Japan, Spring 1976.
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 1972 – 2014.
- Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 1968 – 1972.
- Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, September 1969–June 1970
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Dynamical Systems, Brown University, Providence, R.I., February 1968–June 1968.
- Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 1964–August 1968.
- Research Assistant, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Illinois, June 1961–August 1964
- Fellow, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Illinois, September 1960–May 1961
- Research Assistant, Marconi's Research Laboratory, Chelmsford, England, Summer 1959
