Prof. Umapada Pal IAPR Fellow IEEE Senior Member H-index: 56 Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico

Biography: 

Umapada Pal received his PhD from Indian Statistical Institute in 1997 and he did his Post Doctoral research at INRIA, France. From January 1997, he is a faculty member of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (CVPRU) of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He was the former Head and at present he is a Professor of CVPRU. He is also an Adjunct Professor of University of Technology Sydney, Australia.  His fields of research interest are towards different pattern recognition and computer vision problems like Digital document analysis, Camera/video text processing, Biometrics, Image retrieval, Keyword spotting, Video analysis, Medical image analysis, Pose estimation, Image/video generation etc. He has published 525 research papers in various international journals, conference proceedings and edited volumes. Because of his significant impact in the Document Analysis research, in 2003 he received “ICDAR Outstanding Young Researcher Award” from International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). In 2005-2006 Dr. Pal has received JSPS fellowship from Japan government. Dr. Pal has been serving as General/Program/Organizing Chair of many conferences including International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), International Conference on Frontiers of Handwritten Recognition (ICFHR), International Workshop on Document Analysis and Systems (DAS), Asian Conference on Pattern recognition (ACPR) etc. International Conference on Pattern recognition (ICPR) will be in first time in India in 2024 under his leadership.  Also, he has served as a program committee member of more than 60 international events. He has supervised 17 PhD students. He has many international research collaborations and currently supervising Ph.D. students of 5 foreign universities. Also, he has visited more than 30 countries for his academic work. He is the In-Charge of the joint research cluster of the Indian Statistical Institute and the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.  He is the founding Co-Editor-In-Chief of Springer Nature Computer Science journal. He is serving as Associate Editor of many journals like Pattern Recognition, ACM Transactions of Asian Language Information Processing, Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, IJPRAI, and IET Biometrics.  Also, he has served as a guest editor of several special issues. He is a Fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST) etc. He is the IAPR fellow selection committee Chair for 2022-2024. Also, he is among the top 2% scientists in the world as listed by the Stanford University in from 2020.

Biography: 

Professor Pan was selected into the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Program in 2010 and received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2018. As the second principal contributor, he was awarded the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2017 and the First Prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Award in 2016. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China. Currently, he is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Electronic Science and Engineering/Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University during 2011-2012 and from May to August 2017. His research focuses on polymeric electronic materials and devices, e-skin devices, and bio-inspired sensory devices. He has published over 200 papers in prestigious journals including Nature Sustainability, Nature Communications, PNAS, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, and Accounts of Chemical Research, with over 21,000 SCI citations, an H-index of 55, and 14 highly cited ESI papers. He has authored 8 book chapters for publishers including Science Press, Wiley, Elsevier, and World Scientific Publishing. He serves on the editorial boards of academic journals including IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics, Wearable Electronics, Biomimetics, Scientific Reports, and the Journal of Semiconductors.

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