Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri | |
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Bengali: বিদ্যুৎ বরণ চৌধুরী | |
![]() Chaudhuri in ISI at his Office, 2015 | |
Born | 7 December 1950 |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | University of Calcutta 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), Om Prakash Bhasin Award (2011) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | Indian Statistical Institute |
Website | www |
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.
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 has become a Fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) "for contributions to character recognition and speech synthesis in Indian language".[5] He is also Fellow of 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 the field of electronics and information technology.
Chaudhuri's interview on some of his works has been reported in Indian newspaper as well.[9][10]
References
- ^ a b c "INAE Expert Pool". INAE. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ "Society for Natural Language Technology Research". NLTR. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ a b c "IEEE Life Fellow Dictionary". IEEE. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ "IEEE Fellows in IEEE Region 10 Kolkata Section". IEEE. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ "IAPR Fellows". IAPR. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ "TWAS Fellow". TWAS. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ "INSA Fellow". INSA. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ "NASI Fellows". NASI. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ^ The Telegraph. "The Telegraph, India, Jan 29, 2004". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ Jayanta Gupta (21 August 2013). "Now, software to decode Tagore's handwriting". The Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
External links
- Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Official Homepage
- INSA
- Books at Amazon
- Publications from DBLP
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Fellow Members of the IEEE
- Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur alumni
- University of Calcutta alumni
- Indian Statistical Institute faculty
- Indian computer scientists
- Artificial intelligence researchers
- Scientists from Kolkata
- Bengali scientists
- Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
- Fellows of The National Academy of Sciences, India
- Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering