BIOGRAPHY

Krithika Venkataramani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur since March 2010. She received her B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2000, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002 and 2007, respectively. Her M.S. research was on reducing complexity in fingerprint authentication using global correlation filter templates. Her Ph.D. research involved finding optimal diversity in classifier ensembles to improve accuracy and generating such diverse classifier ensembles for biometric verification. Prior to joining IIT Kanpur, she had worked at Innovations Lab, Tata Consultancy Services, on digital watermark detection and on developing large scale biometric recognition systems. She had also been an intern at the Exploratory Computer Vision group, IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, USA in 2005-2006 where she worked on optimizing IBM's fingerprint indexing algorithm in terms of speed and accuracy. She has been a technical expert responsible for creating biometric standards that need to be followed in Government of India projects. Face, Fingerprint and Iris image capture and storage standards and Fingerprint minutiae standards have been released. Her research interests are in Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing and Statistical analysis, with a focus on Data Fusion. She is interested in inter-disciplinary applications to different areas including Biometric Recognition, Medical imaging, and Climate prediction.

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