Scholar
Nalini Ratha
Google Scholar ID: mIPd9DkAAAAJ
University at Buffalo-SUNY
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,054
H-index
38
i10-index
97
Publications
20
Co-authors
8
list available
Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- He has co-edited several books, including 'Domain Adaptation for Visual Understanding' (Springer, 2020), 'Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems', 'Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems' (Springer), and 'A guide to Biometrics Selection and System design' (Springer). He has served on the editorial boards of multiple journals and has edited several special issues. He has received numerous patent awards, an IBM 'Research Division' award, an 'Outstanding Technical Innovation Award', and was named an 'IBM Master Inventor' in 2018. In 2019, he won the IEEE Biometrics Council Leadership award.
Research Experience
- He has been associated with several leading biometrics conferences, serving as general co-chair or co-organizer for events such as IEEE AutoID 02, SPIE Conf. on Biometrics in Human Identification 2004-2005, ICPR 2006-2008, CVPR workshop on Biometrics 2006-2012, BTAS 07 -- BTAS 10, BTAS 2016, ISBA 2017-2018, and IJCB 2020.
Education
- Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University; B.Tech in Electrical Engineering and M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Background
- As a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Nalini K. Ratha leads biometrics research efforts focusing on enhancing security and performance evaluation of biometrics systems. His current interests include building robust and trustworthy AI systems, fairness and bias in AI and vision systems, biometrics, computer vision, pattern recognition, and special purpose architecture for computer vision systems.
Miscellany
- He has been an Adjunct Professor at Cooper Union and NYU-Poly for several years. He served as the President of the IEEE Biometrics Council from January 2011 to December 2012 and currently serves as the nomination chair for the IEEE Biometrics Council.
