Jitendra Malik
Born (1960-10-11) 11 October 1960 (age 63)
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India
NationalityIndian American
EducationSt. Aloysius Senior Secondary School
IIT Kanpur (1980, BTech)
Stanford University (1985, PhD)
Known forComputer vision
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorThomas Binford
Doctoral students
Websitehttps://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~malik/

Jitendra Malik is an Indian-American academic who is the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] He is known for his research in computer vision.

Academic biography

Malik was born in Mathura, India, on October 11, 1960.[2] He did his schooling from Jabalpur, at the St. Aloysius Senior Secondary School. He received the BTech degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1980 and the PhD degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1985. In January 1986, he joined the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently the Arthur J. Chick Professor in the Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS).[1] He is also on the faculty of the department of Bioengineering, and the Cognitive Science and Vision Science groups.[1] He served as the chair of the Computer Science Division during 2002–2004 and as the department chair of EECS during 2004–2006 and 2016–2017. Since January 2018, he is also the research director and site lead of Facebook AI Research[3][4] in Menlo Park, where he leads a team of researchers and engineers in computer vision, machine learning and robotics.

Research

Malik's research group has worked on many different topics in computer vision, computational modeling of human vision, computer graphics and the analysis of biological images. He has mentored over 60 PhD students and postdoctoral fellows,[5] a number of whom hold faculty appointments at major universities in the US—including MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, Caltech, Cornell, UIUC, U. Penn, and U. Michigan—and around the world.[5] Several well-known concepts and algorithms arose in this research, such as anisotropic diffusion, normalized cuts, high dynamic range imaging, shape context and R-CNN.[6] According to Google Scholar, his works have been cited over 150,000 times with h-index of 124, i10-index of 278 and over 20 of his papers have received more than a thousand citations each.[7] He is one of ISI's Highly Cited Researchers in engineering.[8] He has served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize from 2019.[9]

He received the gold medal for the best graduating student in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1980 and a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989.[1] At UC Berkeley, he was selected for the Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in teaching in 2000,[10] a Miller Research Professorship in 2001,[11] and appointed to be the Arthur J. Chick Professor in 2002.[1] He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur in 2008.[1] He was awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2007 and 2008 and the Helmholtz Prize[12] twice in 2015 for contributions that have stood the test of time (awarded to papers after 10 years of publication). He is a fellow of the IEEE,[13] the ACM,[14] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[15] and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[16] and the National Academy of Sciences.[17] He is also the recipient of the PAMI-TC Distinguished Researcher Award (2013)[18] the K.S. Fu Prize (2014),[19] the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award (2016)[20] the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in AI (2018).[21] He was awarded the 2019 IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award[22] for his "leading role in developing Computer Vision into a thriving discipline through pioneering research, leadership, and mentorship".

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Biography from UC Berkeley EECS Faculty Homepages, retrieved 2014-03-22.
  2. ^ "Scale-Space and Edge Detection Using Anisotropic Diffusion" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
  3. ^ Facebook AI Research
  4. ^ Facebook newsroom
  5. ^ a b Jitendra Malik’s Home Page, retrieved 2019-05-07
  6. ^ Ross, Girshick (2014). "Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation" (PDF). 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. IEEE. pp. 580–587. arXiv:1311.2524. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2014.81. ISBN 978-1-4799-5118-5. S2CID 215827080.
  7. ^ Google Scholar citations for Jitendra Malik Archived 11 November 2022 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2019-05-07.
  8. ^ ISI Highly Cited Researchers, retrieved 2014-03-22.
  9. ^ "Infosys Prize - Jury 2020". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  10. ^ UC Berkeley EECS Teaching Awards, retrieved 2014-03-22.
  11. ^ Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, past and present Miller professors, retrieved 2014-03-22.
  12. ^ "ICCV Helmholtz Prize". Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  13. ^ IEEE Fellows Directory, retrieved 2014-03-22.
  14. ^ ACM Fellows, United States, 2008
  15. ^ 2013 AAAS Fellows
  16. ^ NAE Elects 68 Members and Nine Foreign Associates, Release Date: 8 February 2011.
  17. ^ 15 UC scholars elected to National Academy of Sciences, University of California Newsroom, 28 April 2015, accessed 2018-09-03.
  18. ^ ICCV 2013 Awards, retrieved 2014-03-22.
  19. ^ K.S. Fu Prize
  20. ^ "ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award". ACM Awards. ACM. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  21. ^ "IJCAI Award for Research Excellence 2018".
  22. ^ "IEEE Computer Pioneer Award". IEEE Computer Society. 2 April 2019.

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