John Daugman

John Daugman
OBE FREng
John Daugman OBE FREng
Born	February 17, 1954
Died	June 11, 2024 (aged 70)
Citizenship	British and American
Alma mater	Harvard University (AB, PhD)
Known for	Vision theory and pattern recognition; 2D wavelet encodings;; iris recognition algorithm
Awards	Order of the British Empire (OBE);; FREng: Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering;; FNAI: Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors;; FBCS: Fellow of the British Computer Society;; FIMA: Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications;; FIAPR: Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition;; PYIA: NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award;; Induction into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame;
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer vision; pattern recognition; biometrics;
Institutions	Harvard University; University of Cambridge; University of Groningen; Tokyo Institute of Technology;
Website	www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/

John Gustav Daugman OBE FREng (February 17, 1954 – June 11, 2024) was a British-American professor of computer vision and pattern recognition at the University of Cambridge. His major research contributions have been in computational neuroscience, pattern recognition, and in computer vision with the original development of wavelet methods for image encoding and analysis. He invented the IrisCode, a 2D Gabor wavelet-based iris recognition algorithm that is the basis of all publicly deployed automatic iris recognition systems and which has registered more than 1.5 billion persons worldwide in government ID programs.