Anil K. Jain (computer scientist, born 1948)

Anil Kumar Jain
Anil Kumar Jain
	Portrait of Anil K. Jain
Born	1948 (age 77–78); Basti, India
Known for	Biometric recognition, fingerprint recognition, face recognition, data clustering
Awards	BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2024); Distinguished Alumni Award, IIT Kanpur (2017); Member, National Academy of Engineering (2016); Foreign Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (2016); IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize (2008); IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award (2007); IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2003); IAPR Pierre Devijver Award (2002); Humboldt Research Award (2002); Guggenheim Fellowship (2001); Fulbright Fellowship (1998);
Academic background
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Ohio State University;
Thesis	Some Aspects of Dimensionality and Sample Size Problems in Statistical Pattern Recognition (1973)
Doctoral advisor	Robert B. McGhee
Academic work
Discipline	Pattern recognition, computer vision, biometrics
Institutions	Michigan State University; Wayne State University;
Notable students	Xiaoming Liu

Anil Kumar Jain (born 1948) is an Indian-American computer scientist and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. He is one of the most highly cited researchers in computer science, and is internationally recognized for his foundational contributions to pattern recognition, computer vision, and biometric recognition, particularly in fingerprint recognition and face recognition.

Jain is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, IAPR, and SPIE. His research has shaped the field of biometrics and has been applied in systems used worldwide for identity verification, law enforcement, and border security. In 2024, he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Information and Communication Technologies.