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Ramesh Jain

Ramesh Jain
Born (1949-06-08) June 8, 1949 (age 67)
Nagpur, India
Nationality Indian
Fields Computer Science
Institutions University of California, Irvine
University of Michigan
Alma mater

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Ramesh Chandra Jain (mr:रमेश चंद्र जैन)(hi:रमेश चंद्र जैन) (born June 8, 1949) is a scientist and entrepreneur in the field of information and computer science. He is a Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine.

He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India and has a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

He was well learn in chess, so he was also known as a chess master during his college years, beating ten people at the same time or one after another.

He served as a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego; in each case he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual information systems labs. In 2005 he was named the first Bren Professor in Information and Computer Science for the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine.

He founded or co-founded multiple startup companies including Imageware, Virage, Praja, and Seraja; companies currently under development include mChron and Stikco. He worked on some of the early visual information retrieval systems. He served as Chairman of ACM SIG Multimedia.


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