ICB 2019: Joshua Engelsma received the Best Paper Award for his paper "Generalizing Fingerprint Spoof Detector: Learning a One-Class Classifier" (by J. J. Engelsma and A. K. Jain) [pdf]
ICB 2019: Joshua Engelsma received the Best Paper Award for his paper "Generalizing Fingerprint Spoof Detector: Learning a One-Class Classifier" (by J. J. Engelsma and A. K. Jain) [pdf]
CCBR 2016: Keyur Patel received the Best Student Paper Award for his paper "Cross-database Face Antispoofing with Robust Feature Representation" (by K. Patel, H. Han and A. K. Jain) [pdf]
BIOSIG 2016: Sunpreet Arora received the Best Paper Award for his paper "3D Whole Hand Targets: Evaluating Slap and Contactless Fingerprint Readers" (by S. S. Arora, A. K. Jain and N. G. Paulter Jr.) [pdf]
BIOSIG 2016: Yoshinori Koda received the Best Poster Award for his paper "Advances in Capturing Child Fingerprints: A High Resolution CMOSImage Sensor with SLDR Method" (by Y. Koda, T. Higuchi and A. K. Jain) [pdf]
BTAS 2012: Sunpreet Arora received the Best Poster Award for his paper "On Iris Camera Interoperability" (by S. Arora, M. Vatsa, R. Singh, and Jain) [pdf]
ICB 2012: Soweon Yoon received the IAPR Best Biometric Student Paper Award for her paper "On Matching Altered Fingerprints" (by S. Yoon, Q. Zhao, and A. K. Jain) [pdf]
IJCB 2011: Soweon Yoon received the IAPR Best Biometric Student Paper Award for her paper "Latent Fingerprint Enhancement via Robust Orientation Field Estimation" (by S. Yoon, J. Feng, and A. K. Jain) [pdf] [picture]
IEEE SPS 2011: Karthik Nandakumar received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for 2010 for his paper, "Fingerprint-based Fuzzy Vault: Implementation and Performance" (by K. Nandakumar, A. K. Jain, and S. Pankanti) [pdf]
BTAS 2010: Brendan Klare received the The Honeywell Best Student Paper Award for his paper "On a Taxonomy of Facial Features" (by B. Klare and A. K. Jain) [pdf]
SIBGRAPI 2010: Alessandra A. Paulino received the Best Student Paper Award for her paper "Latent Fingerprint Matching: Fusion of Manually Marked and Derived Minutiae" (by A. A. Paulino, A. K. Jain, and J. Feng) [pdf]
ICPR 2010: Kien Nguyen received the IBM Best Student Paper Award for his paper in Track VI "Automated Gland Segmentation and Classification for Gleason Grading of Prostate Tissue Images" (by K. Nguyen, A. K. Jain, and R. Allen) [pdf]
ICPR 2010: Y-B. Lee, U. Park, and A. K. Jain received the Best Scientific Paper Award for their paper in Track II "PILL-ID: Matching and Retrieval of Drug Pill Imprint Images" [pdf]
BTAS 2009: K. Nandakumar, A. Ross, and A. K. Jain received the Poster Paper Award for "Biometric Fusion: Does Modeling Correlation Really Matter?" [pdf]
ICB 2009: Yi Chen received the Accenture Best Paper Award for her paper "Beyond Minutiae: A Fingerprint Individuality Model with Pattern, Ridge and Pore Features" (by Y. Chen and A. K. Jain) [pdf]
BCC 2008: Jung-Eun Lee received the Best Paper Award for "Scars, Marks and Tattoos (SMT): Soft Biometric for Suspect and Victim Identification" (by J.-E. Lee, A. K. Jain, and R. Jin) [pdf]
ICPR 2008: Abhishek Nagar received the Best Scientific Paper Award for his paper "Securing Fingerprint Template: Fuzzy Vault with Minutiae Descriptors" (by A. Nagar, K. Nandakumar, and A. K. Jain) [pdf]
PCM 2007: A. K. Jain, J. Lee, and R. Jin, " Tattoo-ID: Automatic Tattoo Image Retrieval for Suspect & Victim Identification" [pdf]
BYSM 2007: Y. Chen and A. K. Jain received The Lockheed-Martin Corporation Best Paper Awards for their paper "Dots And Incipients: Extended Features for Partial Fingerprint Matching" [pdf]
ICB 2006: J. Fierrez-Aguilar, Y. Chen, J. Ortega-Garcia, and A. K. Jain received the Motorola Best Student Paper Award for the paper " Incorporating image quality in multi-algorithm fingerprint verification" [pdf]
Pattern Recognition 2005: A. K. Jain, K. Nandakumar, and A. Ross received the Best Paper Award for their paper " Score Normalization in Multimodal Biometric Systems" [pdf]
AVBPA 2005: Umut Uludag received the Best Student Paper Award sponsored by Identix Incorporated for the paper "Fuzzy Vault for Fingerprints" (by U. Uludag, S. Pankanti, and A. K. Jain) [pdf]
News Timeline
Feb 2025
$1M creates endowed professorship in computer science [link]
Feb 2025
Jan 2025
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Anil Jain and Michael I. Jordan for core contributions in machine learning that have powered the development of biometrics and artificial intelligence, BBVA Foundation, January 21st, 2025 [EurekAlert!][ACM][Morning News][Nouvelles du monde][BBVA Foundation]
Jan 2025
Aug 2024
Jain featured in ABC news article: "NFL rolls out facial authentication for credentialed personnel.", published August 9, 2024. [link]
Aug 2024
Feb 2024
Anil Jain appointed as Douglas E. Zongker Endowed Professor, effective Feb 1, 2024.
Doug received B.S. degree in computer science at MSU and then went on to finish his Ph.D. at the University of Washington. He was one of the early employees at Google. He currently works at Waymo. As a senior at MSU, Doug worked in Anil Jain's lab and published following papers:
Feature selection: Evaluation, application, and small sample performance, A Jain, D Zongker, IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 19 (2), 153-158, 1997. [link]
Representation and recognition of handwritten digits using deformable templates, AK Jain, D Zongker, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 19 (12), 1386, 1997. [link]
Algorithms for feature selection: An evaluation, D Zongker, A Jain, Proceedings of 13th international conference on pattern recognition 2, 18-221, 1996. [link]
Feb 2024
October 2023
Biometric Pioneers: Anil K. Jain. Interview conducted by Aparna Bharati, Assistant Professor of Biometrics and Data Pattern, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
[Interview]
October 2023
May 2023
"FaceID Security", Superior Morning with Mary-Jean Cormier, CBC Listen, May 2023.
[Podcast]
March 2023
March 2023
"Technology Transfer Achievement", MSU Innovation Celebration, 2023.
[Video]
[Story]
March 2023
November 2022
Acclaimed Computer Scientist Anil Kumar Jain Conferred Honorary Doctoral Degree by HKBU, November 21, 2022.
[link]
November 2022
September 2022
Jain featured in Payments Dive news article: "Will biometrics be the future of payments?", published September 26, 2022.
[link]
September 2022
July 2022
Jain tapped for National Academies study, which would help shape the future of face recognition. July 6, 2022.
[link]
July 2022
November 2021
Jain presented honorary doctorate by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). November 26, 2021.
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Jain and his students' work on Infant-Prints featured in MSU Today. April. 12, 2021.
Jain and former postdoctoral associates Hu Han and Di Wen, have been awarded the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) for their paper "Face Spoof Detection With Image Distortion Analysis". April. 9, 2021. [link]
Joshua Engelsma awarded with the Fitch H. Beach award for outstanding PhD research in 2019-2020. [link] [video]
Dr. Abhay Karandikar, Director of IIT Kanpur, congratulated Jain on being the top leading scientist in the World Ranking of Top Computer Scientists 2020. [link]
Jain received the Distinguished Alumnus Award (DAA) of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK). It is the highest award given by the Institute to its alumni in recognition of their achievements of exceptional merit. [news]
Jain, Dr. Kai Cao, and Dr. Sunpreet S. Arora were awarded Lansing Police Department's Civilian Citation at Lansing Police Dept. Award Ceremony and MSUPD presented him the Meritorious Service Award “in response to the assistance provided to the Digital Forensics and Computer Crimes Unit”. [news][photo][photo]
Jain has been elected a Foreign Fellow by the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Along with the INAE honor this fall, he will be inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) on Oct. 9 in Washington, D.C. -- one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer in the United States.
Research on using fingerprints to track vaccination schedules of infants and toddlers featured on WILX.com, February 13, 2015, Fox 47 News, February 14, 2015.
Jain interviewed about the use of technology in solving the Paris shootings on Bloomberg TV, January 7, 2015.
Jaunary 2015
December 2014
PRIP lab research featured on BTN Live, December 2, 2014.
December 2014
November 2014
The FaceSketchID system featured on MSU Today, November 11, 2014.
November 2014
August 2014
Jain interviewed about identifying the executioner of American journalist James Foley on Bloomberg TV, August 22, 2014.
August 2014
June 2014
Jain appointed a member of the first Forensic Science Standards Board by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), June 26, 2014 [MSU Today].
June 2014
May 2014
Technology to create wearable 3D fingerprint artifacts featured on Fox 47 News, May 6, 2014.
Jain quoted in MarketWatch (Is the end of Social Security numbers at hand? The search for more secure alternatives, including biometrics), April 9, 2014.
Jain quoted in Popular Science (The End of Anonymity), January 15, 2014.
January 2014
2013
Jain interviewed about emerging biometric technologies in the consumer mainstream by the New York Times, December 28, 2013.
Jain's research has been widely recognized in the fields of pattern recognition and biometrics (more than 100,000 citations). [Google Scholar], [H-index]
Soweon Yoon interviewed about palmprint matching [link], October 24, 2013.
Jain interviewed about the Biometric Optical Surveillance System (BOSS), a crowd scanning project by the Department of Homeland Security by the New York Times, Ars Technica and CBS Minnesota Radio [audio], August 21, 2013.
Jain interviewed about the development of a new biometric voting system for Tanzania by iSGTW magazine, July 17, 2013.
