Anil K. Jain

In addition to his position at MBZUAI, Professor Jain is a University Distinguished Professor and Douglas E. Zongker Endowed Professor at Michigan State University where he has taught and conducted research for over 50 years. Jain has held visiting appointments at the National Science Foundation (NSF), The Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, University of Oslo, ETH, University of Bonn, Osaka University, and International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. His research has addressed challenges in dimensionality reduction, unsupervised learning, 3D object recognition, texture representation and matching and applications in remote sensing, medical imaging and biometric recognition.

Professor Jain's laboratory has licensed a number of technologies to major companies: large-scale fingerprint matching (IBM); tattoo matching and retrieval, sketch to mugshot matching and altered fingerprint recognition (Safran-Morpho, now Idemia), large-scale fingerprint matching and large-scale face recognition (NEC), and latent fingerprint recognition and fingerprint synthesis (Thales). He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) and asa member of the IEEE Publications Board.

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, USA
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, USA
• Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

• BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technology, 2025
• Advisory Committee Member, Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA), 2023–2025
• Board of Trustees, MBZUAI, 2019–2024
• Doctor Honoris Causa: Hong Kong Baptist University (2022); Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2021); Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2018)
• Elected Member: US National Academy of Engineering (2016); Indian National Academy of Engineering (Foreign Member, 2016); Chinese Academy of Sciences (Foreign Member, 2019); The World Academy of Sciences (2019); National Academy of Inventors (2015)
• Member, Forensic Science Standards Board, 2014–2016
• Member, US Defense Science Board, 2008–2010
• King-Sun Fu Prize, International Association of Pattern Recognition, 2008
• IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award, 2007
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (2001); Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2002); Fulbright Research Scholar (1998)
• Best Paper Awards: IEEE Signal Processing Society (2015); IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1996)

• Zhu G., Su, Jain A.K., Liu: “FusionAgent: A Multimodal Agent with Dynamic Model Selection for Human Recognition.” CVPR, 2026.
• Kim J., Jain A.K., Liu: “50 Years of Automated Face Recognition.” IEEE TPAMI, 2026.
• Grosz S., Jain A.K.: “Universal Fingerprint Generation: Controllable Diffusion Model with Multimodal Conditions.” IEEE TPAMI, 2024.
• Kim J., Jain A.K., Liu: “AdaFace: Quality Adaptive Margin for Face Recognition.” CVPR, 2022.
• Engelsma J., Jain A.K., Boddeti V.: “HERS: Homomorphically Encrypted Representation Search.” IEEE T-BIOM, 2021.
• Engelsma J. et al., Jain A.K.: “Infant-Id: Fingerprints for Global Good.” IEEE TPAMI, 2021.
• Engelsma J., Cao K., Jain A.K.: “Learning a Fixed-Length Fingerprint Representation.” IEEE TPAMI, 2019.
• Shi Y., Jain A.K.: “Probabilistic Face Embeddings.” ICCV, 2019.
• Engelsma J., Cao K., Jain A.K.: “Raspireader: An Open-Source Fingerprint Reader.” IEEE TPAMI, 2018.
• Best-Rowden L., Jain A.K.: “Longitudinal Study of Automatic Face Recognition.” IEEE TPAMI, 2017.