Ramesh Jain
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Ramesh Chandra Jain(hi:रमेश चंद्र जैन) (born June 8, 1949) is a scientist
and entrepreneur
whose decades long career has spanned several universities and startup companies. He is best known for founding the company Virage and working on some of the early visual information retrieval systems. In addition, he was the founder of IEEE Multimedia
.
He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Nagpur University, Nagpur
, India
and has a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur
, India
.
, entrepreneur
, and teacher
, Dr. Ramesh Jain founded and directed artificial intelligence
and visual information systems labs at the University of Michigan
, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego.
Also Chairman of ACM SIG Multimedia, he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia
magazine and at present serves on the editorial boards of several magazines. He has been elected Fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR, AAAI, and SPIE. He has published over 250 research papers in scientific journals and conferences.
Currently, Ramesh is a Bren Professor in Information
& Computer Sciences
, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
, University of California, Irvine
.
His latest research is focussed on "Experiential Computing" - see Comm. of ACM, July, pp. 48–55, 2003.
Scientist
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and entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
whose decades long career has spanned several universities and startup companies. He is best known for founding the company Virage and working on some of the early visual information retrieval systems. In addition, he was the founder of IEEE Multimedia
IEEE MultiMedia
IEEE MultiMedia is a quarterly journal, published by the IEEE Computer Society and concerned with multimedia technologies. Topics of interest include image processing, video processing, audio analysis, text retrieval and understanding, data mining and analysis, and data fusion.- External links :* *...
.
He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Nagpur University, Nagpur
Nagpur
Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and has a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur
Kharagpur
Kharagpur is an industrial city in India. It is located in the Midnapore West district of the state of West Bengal.Kharagpur was chosen as the location of the first campus of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology . The IITs are the premier technical education institutes in India and...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.
Overview
An researcherResearcher
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, entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
, and teacher
Teacher
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, Dr. Ramesh Jain founded and directed artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
and visual information systems labs at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego.
Also Chairman of ACM SIG Multimedia, he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
magazine and at present serves on the editorial boards of several magazines. He has been elected Fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR, AAAI, and SPIE. He has published over 250 research papers in scientific journals and conferences.
Currently, Ramesh is a Bren Professor in Information
Information
Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...
& Computer Sciences
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, also known as the School of ICS or equally informally as the Bren School, is an academic unit of University of California, Irvine , and the only dedicated school of computer science in the University of California system...
, University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
.
His latest research is focussed on "Experiential Computing" - see Comm. of ACM, July, pp. 48–55, 2003.
Companies founded by Ramesh
- PRAJA Inc
- Virage, developer of media solutions and visual information management systems
- ImageWare Inc, solutions for surface modeling and reverse engineering
- SEraja Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
List of Publications
- Publications by Ramesh Jain
- Ramesh talks about Eventweb
- Presentation on Next Generation Search by Ramesh Jain