Anil Jain, an Indian American University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, has joined a panel of specialists for a strategic and technological improve of India’s digital identification platform, Aadhaar.
An Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, graduate, Jain, the Douglas E. Zongker Endowed Professor of Engineering, is an internationally acknowledged innovator in sample recognition and biometrics.
The Unique Identification Authority of India will form a brand new Aadhaar Vision 2032, a forward-looking roadmap aligned with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act and rising international requirements of privateness and cybersecurity.
The professional panel will leverage cutting-edge applied sciences akin to synthetic intelligence, or AI, blockchain, quantum computing, superior encryption and next-generation knowledge safety mechanisms.
Through his work with the Indian authorities, he helped design a safe, correct and real-time identification system, known as Aadhaar, for all 1.45 billion residents primarily based on their fingerprints, face and iris.
Currently, Aadhaar is used to course of roughly 80 million biometric authentications daily for routine transactions involving banking, welfare advantages, pensions, and many others., and has supplied an identification to the marginalized in India.
Jain obtained his B.S. from the IIT, Kanpur (1969) and M.S. (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) levels from The Ohio State University, all in Electrical Engineering.
Jain obtained the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards and was inducted into the United States National Academy of Engineering, Indian National Academy of Engineering, The World Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors.
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Jain has authored foundational books in each biometrics and sample recognition and served because the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1991-1994) and was awarded the Guggenheim, Humboldt and Fulbright fellowships together with the IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize.
He was appointed to the Defense Science Board, Forensic Science Standards Board, and the AAAS examine group on Latent Fingerprint Recognition.
For his plethora of discoveries and purposes in biometrics, his service to the analysis neighborhood, and his in depth mentorship, Jain was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2017), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2020) and Hong Kong Baptist University (2021).