Abstract

Being a postgraduate student is a major commitment as well as sacrifice. You have made a wise choice in pursuing postgraduate studies at Baptist U. because the rewards, both monetary as well as professional, are well worth it. Whether you are pursuing a master’s degree or a doctoral degree, it is important to make the maximum use of the opportunities available to you as a postgraduate student. In this talk I will present my own experiences as a postgraduate student and now as a teacher and mentor of postgraduate students.

Biography of Speaker

Anil Jain is a University Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Statistics & Probability. He joined the MSU faculty in 1974 and served as the Department Chair during 1995-99. His research interests include pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition. He has received Fulbright, Guggenheim and Humboldt awards. He is a Fellow of a number of professional societies, including AAAS, ACM, IAPR, IEEE and SPIE. He holds six patents in the area of fingerprint matching and is the author of a number of books on biometrics and pattern recognition. ISI has designated him as a highly cited researcher. According to Citeseer, his 1988 book “Algorithms for Clustering Data” is ranked # 91 in “Most Cited Articles in Computer Science”.