Rama Chellappa

Trustworthy AI for Computer Vision and Medicine

 BIO

Prof. Rama Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, with a secondary appointment in Computer Science, at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). At JHU, he is affiliated with the Center for Imaging Science, the Center for Language and Speech Processing, the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Institute, the Institute for Assured Autonomy, and the Mathematical Institute for Data Science. He also holds a non-tenured appointment as a College Park Professor in the ECE department at the University of Maryland. His research spans artificial intelligence, computer vision, image processing and analysis, and machine learning. In recent years, his work has increasingly focused on developing trustworthy AI systems with applications in engineering and medicine.

Prof. Chellappa is the recipient of numerous prestigious honors, including the 2012 K. S. Fu Prize from the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR); the Society, Technical Achievement, and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society; the Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Computer Society; the Inaugural Leadership Award from the IEEE Biometrics Council; the 2020 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal for Signal Processing; and the 2024 Edwin H. Land Medal from Optica. Most recently, he received both the Distinguished Researcher Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Distinguished Researcher Award and the Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society’s Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Technical Committee. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, AIMBE, IAPR, IEEE, the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Optica, and the Washington Academy of Science. He holds nine patents.