Brief Biography

I did my D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, England in 1979 in Mathematics specializing in Group Theory. I did my undergraduate studies at the St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, India. I taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, USA during 1986-99 (joining as an Associate Professor and then as a Full Professor during 1994-99) and then worked at the Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies Lab, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (as a Principal Scientist) during 1999-2004. I joined Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in June, 2004 as a Full Professor where I hold currently a Canada Research Chair, Tier 1.
 

I have authored/co-authored over 227 publications including 96 journal papers, two research monographs (on facial expression analysis and on iris recognition respectively) and also co-edited a book on Vision Geometry published by the Oxford University Press (with A. Rosenfeld and R.A. Melter). I hold 4 US Patents and 7 Japanese Patents, and also have 11 pending US Patent applications.
 

I have been a frequent visitor in the past at the Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland and collaborated extensively with Professor Azriel Rosenfeld. Also, I have visited several times the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.
 

My academic ancestors (this points to the web page created by Prof. Christian Ronse of the Department of Computer Science, University of Strasbourg, France - he and I were graduate students together at Oxford and had the same thesis advisor!)