Narendra AhujaProfessor Emeritus

He received the 1999 Emanuel R. Piore award of the IEEE, and the 1998 Technology Achievement Award of the International Society for Optical Engineering, and 2008 TA Stewart-Dyer/Frederick Harvey Trevithick Prize of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2008-11 Open Innovation Research Award from Hewlett-Packard, and a 2010 Google Research Award. With his students, he shared Best Paper Awards from several conferences and journals of high repute. He was inducted into University of Maryland’s Computer Science Alumni Hall of Fame (2016), received Distinguished Alumnus Awards from University of Maryland Department of Computer Science (2008) and from BITS, Pilani (2012), and was conferred an Honorary Doctorate from York University, England (2018). He was selected as Associate for 1998-99 and 2006-07 and Beckman Associate for 1990-91 in the UIUC Center for Advanced Study. He received University Scholar Award (1985), Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984), National Scholarship (1967-72), President’s Merit Award (1966), and President’s Scout recognition (1966).

He is a fellow of IEEE, American Assoc for Artificial Intelligence, Intl. Association for Pattern Recognition, Assoc for Computing Machinery, American Assoc for the Advancement of Science, and Intl. Society for Optical Engineering. He has served on editorial boards of 7 journals. He has served or is serving on the Advisory/Governing Boards of IIIT, Hyderabad; IIT BHU; IIIT Delhi; LNMIIT, Jaipur; Microsoft Research Connections, USA; and Microsoft Research, India; Institute of Communication, Information and Perception Technologies, Scuola Superiore, Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy; and Swiss Innovation Valley.