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Arun Ross

Martin J Vanderploeg Endowed Professor

Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), College of Engineering

Professor - Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) in the College of Engineering

Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 3142

Biography

Arun Ross is the John and Eva Cillag Endowed Chair in the College of Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He received the B.E. (Hons.) degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India, and the M.S. and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Michigan State University.

He was in the faculty of West Virginia University between 2003 and 2012 ... where he received the Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award for excellence in creative research and the WVU Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award.

Ross is an internationally recognized expert in biometrics, computer vision and machine learning. He has advocated for the responsible use of biometrics in multiple forums including the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Identity and Security in Switzerland in 2018. He testified as an expert panelist in an event organized by the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee at the UN Headquarters in 2013.

Ross is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. He was designated a Kavli Fellow by the US National Academy of Sciences in 2006. In recognition of his contributions to the field of pattern recognition and biometrics, the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) honored him with the prestigious JK Aggarwal Prize in 2014 and the Young Biometrics Investigator Award in 2013.

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Education

Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University 2003

M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University 1999

B.E. (Hons.), Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India 1996

Awards

IAPR Fellow (2018)

JK Aggarwal Prize from International Association of Pattern Recognition (2014)

Best Paper Award for "DeepMasterPrints: Generating MasterPrints for Dictionary Attacks via Latent Variable Evolution" at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), (Los Angeles, USA), October 2018

Best Student Paper Award for "Impact of Photometric Transformations on PRNU Estimation Schemes: A Case Study Using Near Infrared Ocular Images" at the 6th IAPR/IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, (Sassari, Italy), June 2018

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