Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri (B. B. Chauduri) is a senior computer scientist and the pro-vice-chancellor of Techno India University, West Bengal, India. He is also adjuncted to Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), where he was a Professor for about three decades. He was the founding Head of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (which was established in 1994) of ISI. Moreover, he was a J.C. Bose Fellow and INAE[1] Distinguished Professor at ISI.

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
Chaudhuri in ISI at his Office, 2015
Born (1950-12-07) 7 December 1950
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Known forOptical Character Recognition
Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition
Natural Language Processing
AwardsIEEE Life Fellow (2016),
IEEE Fellow (2001),
IAPR Fellow (1998),
TWAS Fellow (2011),
Om Prakash Bhasin Award (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsIndian Statistical Institute
Websitewww.isical.ac.in/~bbc/

He was the Vice-President of the Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR).[2]

His primary research contributes to the fields of computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition.[3] He is a pioneer of "Indian language script OCR".[3]

Education

Chaudhuri received his BSc (Hons.), BTech and MTech degrees from University of Calcutta, India in 1969, 1972 and 1974, respectively and PhD Degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1980.[1] 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".[3][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),[1] National Academy of Sciences (NASI),[8] and Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (IETE). In 2011, Chaudhuri received the Om Prakash Bhasin Award for his contribution in science and technology.

Chaudhuri's interview on some of his works has been reported in national (Indian) newspaper as well.[9][10]

References
  1. "INAE Expert Pool". INAE. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  2. "Society for Natural Language Technology Research". NLTR. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. "IEEE Life Fellow Dictionary". IEEE. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  4. "IEEE Fellows in IEEE Region 10 Kolkata Section". IEEE. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  5. "IAPR Fellows". IAPR. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  6. "TWAS Fellow". TWAS. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  7. "INSA Fellow". INSA. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  8. "NASI Fellows". NASI. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  9. The Telegraph. "The Telegraph, India, Jan 29, 2004". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  10. Jayanta Gupta (21 August 2013). "Now, software to decode Tagore's handwriting". The Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
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