| Sargur Srihari is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY), in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering where he teaches courses in machine learning and pattern recognition. He is the founding director of the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR). Srihari is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He has been General Chairman of three IEEE-sponsored international conferences in Handwriting Recognition and Document Analysis and Recognition. He is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Library of Medicine, and a member of the Technical Advisory Boards of two pattern recognition and natural language processing software companies. Srihari received a BE in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 1970 and an M.S and PhD in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus in 1972 and 1976, respectively. He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award by The Ohio State University College of Engineering in 1999. |
