Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
Chaudhuri at ISI Office, 2015
Native name Bengali: বিদ্যুৎ বরণ চৌধুরী
Born (1950-12-07) December 7, 1950
Residence Baranagar, Kolkata, India
Nationality Indian
Alma mater University of Calcutta and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Known for Optical Character Recognition
Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition
Natural Language Processing
Awards

IEEE Life Fellow (2016),
IEEE Fellow (2001),
IAPR Fellow (1998),

TWAS Fellow (2011)
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Indian Statistical Institute
Website www.isical.ac.in/~bbc/

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri (B. B. Chauduri) is a senior Scientist and Professor of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), whose primary research contributions to the fields of computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition.[1] He is the founding Head of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (which was established in 1994) of ISI. Currently, he is the J.C. Bose Fellow and INAE[2] Distinguished Professor at ISI.

He was the Vice-President of the Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR).[3]

Education

Chaudhuri received his B.Sc. (Hons.), B. Tech. and M. Tech. degrees from University of Calcutta, India in 1969, 1972 and 1974, respectively and Ph.D. Degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1980.[2] He did his Post-Doc work during 1981-82 from Queen's University, U.K, through Leverhulme Overseas Fellowship.

Awards and recognition

Chaudhuri has been elected as a Life Fellow of IEEE "for contributions to pattern recognition, especially Indian language script OCR, document processing and natural language processing".[1][4] He is also Fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR),[5] The World Academy of Science (TWAS),[6] Indian National Science Academy (INSA),[7] Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE),[2] National Academy of Sciences (NASI),[8] and Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (IETE).

According to Google Scholar, Chaudhuri's work has been cited more than 11,000 times.[9]

Chaudhuri's interview on some of his works has been reported in national (Indian) newspaper as well.[10][11]

References

  1. 1 2 IEEE. "IEEE Life Fellow Dictionary". Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 INAE. "INAE Expert Pool". Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  3. ↑ SNLTR. "Society for Natural Language Technology Research". Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  4. ↑ IEEE. "IEEE Fellows in IEEE Region 10 Kolkata Section". Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  5. ↑ IAPR. "IAPR Fellows". Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  6. ↑ TWAS. "TWAS Fellow". Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  7. ↑ INSA. "INSA Fellow". Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  8. ↑ NASI. "NASI Fellows". Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  9. ↑ Google_Scholar. "Google Scholar". Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  10. ↑ The Telegraph. "The Telegraph, India, Jan 29, 2004". Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  11. ↑ Times of India. "Times of India, Aug 21, 2013".
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