Chellappa Rama

Rama Chellappa is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), holding primary appointments in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, under the Whiting School of Engineering and School of Medicine, respectively. He is affiliated with the Center for Imaging Science, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Institute for Assured Autonomy, and Mathematical Institute for Data Science. Previously, he spent 29 years at the University of Maryland as a College Park Professor and held roles at the University of Southern California and Purdue University.

His research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and biometrics, with applications in smart cars, forensics, 2D/3D facial modeling, and medical diagnostics. Notable contributions include work on Markov random fields, 3D structure recovery, deep learning for face recognition, and gait recognition. He has published over 900 papers, achieving an h-index of 140.

Rama Chellappa has been honored with prestigious awards, including the US National Academy of Engineering membership (2023), IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal (2020), and K.S. Fu Prize (2012). He is a Fellow of multiple organizations, including IEEE, IAPR, and AAAS. His current collaborations at JHU School of Medicine involve applying computer vision to analyze facial expressions for monitoring stroke/dementia patients, autism detection in children, and digital pathology.