Narendra Ahuja
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IEEE Fellow (1992)
ACM Fellow (1996)
Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984)
AAAI Fellow (1992)
SPIE Technology Achievement Award (1998)
Narendra Ahuja | |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Scientific career | |
| 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 an Indian-American computer scientist and the Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His research primarily concerns computer vision and pattern recognition.[1]
Ahuja earned a bachelor's degree in 1972 from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS Pilani) in India. He earned a master's degree in 1974 from the Indian Institute of Science, and completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 1979 from the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Azriel Rosenfeld.[1] In addition to his work at the University of Illinois, he was founding director of the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad from 1999 to 2002.[1]
