Richa Singh

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Richa Singh is an Indian computer scientist whose research concerns biometrics, including face recognition and iris recognition. She is a professor and head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Jodhpur.[1]

Education and career[edit]

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]

Recognition[edit]

Singh was named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 2018, "for contributions to face recognition and pattern classification".[4] She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to multimedia protocols and internet standards".[5]

References[edit]

  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. ^ Alphabetical list of Fellows, International Association for Pattern Recognition, retrieved 2023-05-04
  5. ^ Newly elevated Fellow class 2021 (PDF), IEEE, retrieved 2023-05-04

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