Biographical Sketch

Ramesh Jain

Ramesh Jain is an educator, researcher, and entrepreneur. Ramesh is a pioneer in multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems. Currently he is the Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine. Before this he was a Farmer Distinguished Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology. While professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego, he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual information systems labs. Ramesh was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia magazine and serves on the editorial boards of several journals in multimedia, information retrieval and image and vision processing. He has co-authored more than 300 research papers in well-respected journals and conference proceedings. He has co-authored and co-edited several books. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAI, IAPR, and SPIE. He is the Chairman of ACM SIG Multimedia.

Ramesh co-founded three companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. These companies were PRAJA in event-based business activity monitoring (acquired by Tibco); Virage for media management solutions and visual information management (a NASDAQ company acquired by Autonomy); and ImageWare for surface modeling, reverse engineering rapid prototyping, and inspection (acquired by SDRC). He recently co-founded Seraja to address needs of emerging EventWeb.