Chellappa Named to National Academy of Inventors

Rama Chellappa, a College Park Professor in electrical and computer engineering with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), has been named to the National Academy of Inventors’ Class of 2020 fellows, joining the ranks of some of the nation’s most prestigious and creative academic inventors.

He is among 175 new fellows who represent 115 research universities and governmental and nonprofit research institutes worldwide and collectively hold over 4,700 U.S. patents.

Chellappa was a longtime professor and chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) whose work has been central to such fields as computer vision and machine learning. His research includes projects involving signal and image processing, pattern recognition, multi-dimension stochastic processes, statistical interference, image analysis, robust and secure biometrics, and artificial intelligence in computer vision. He holds four patents.

He left the University of Maryland in July 2020 after 28 years and is now at Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor. He maintains close ties to UMD through his appointments in ECE and UMIACS.

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