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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies goes in this seventeenth edition to Anil Jain (Michigan State University, United States) and Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley, United States, and National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, INRIA, Paris, France) for what the committee calls their “core contributions” to machine learning, which have unlocked “applications of far-reaching impact on society as a whole.”
Anil Jain (Basti, India, 1948) holds an MS degree (1970) and PhD (1973) in electrical engineering from Ohio State University. In 1974 he took up a position at Michigan State University, where he has spent his entire career and is now a University Distinguished Professor. Author of almost 300 published papers and fifteen books, including Introduction to Biometrics, Handbook of Face Recognition, Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition and Algorithms for Clustering Data, he also has a dozen patents to his name and has served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and associate editor of several other journals. Jain has been an Amazon Scholar since 2021, and has held visiting appointments at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (India), Korea University, ETH Zurich and IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. He is a member of the U.S. National Academies study on “Facial Recognition: Current Capabilities, Future Prospects, and Governance.”
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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies goes in this seventeenth edition to Anil Jain (Michigan State University, United States) and Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley, United States, and National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, INRIA, Paris, France) for what the committee calls their “core contributions” to machine learning, which have unlocked “applications of far-reaching impact on society as a whole.”
Anil Jain (Basti, India, 1948) holds an MS degree (1970) and PhD (1973) in electrical engineering from Ohio State University. In 1974 he took up a position at Michigan State University, where he has spent his entire career and is now a University Distinguished Professor. Author of almost 300 published papers and fifteen books, including Introduction to Biometrics, Handbook of Face Recognition, Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition and Algorithms for Clustering Data, he also has a dozen patents to his name and has served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and associate editor of several other journals. Jain has been an Amazon Scholar since 2021, and has held visiting appointments at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (India), Korea University, ETH Zurich and IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. He is a member of the U.S. National Academies study on “Facial Recognition: Current Capabilities, Future Prospects, and Governance.”
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