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Richa Singh

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Richa Singh is an Indian computer scientist whose research areas are biometrics, including face recognition and iris recognition, pattern recognition, dependable deep learning, and more recently generative AI. She is a professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Jodhpur.[1]

Education and career

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Singh earned a Ph.D. in computer science in 2008 from West Virginia University. Her dissertation, Mitigating the Effect of Covariates in Face Recognition, was supervised by Afzel Noore.[2]

She became an assistant professor at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi in 2009, and was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and full professor in 2019. In 2019, she moved to her present position at IIT Jodhpur.[3]

She has served in many roles including the PC Chair of CVPR 2022 [4], General Chair of FG 2021, and Vice President of Publications for the IEEE Biometrics Council.

Prominent Recognition

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  1. Singh was named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 2018, "for contributions to face recognition and pattern classification".[5]
  2. She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "For contributions to robust and secure biometrics". [6]
  3. In 2024, she was also named a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). [7]


References

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  1. ^ "Faculty & Advisors", Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Jodhpur, retrieved 2023-05-04
  2. ^ Singh, Richa (2008), Mitigating the Effect of Covariates in Face Recognition (Doctoral dissertation), West Virginia University, retrieved 2023-05-04
  3. ^ "Richa Singh", ORCiD, retrieved 2023-05-04
  4. ^ CVPR 2022, CVPR, retrieved 2023-05-04
  5. ^ Alphabetical list of Fellows, International Association for Pattern Recognition, retrieved 2023-05-04
  6. ^ Newly elevated Fellow class 2021 (PDF), IEEE, archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-12-06, retrieved 2023-05-04
  7. ^ List of Fellows, INAE Fellow Nov 2024, retrieved 2024-10-25
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