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Vishal M. Patel is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a member of the Vision and Image Understanding Lab. His research interests are focused on biomedical image analysis, biometrics, computer vision, machine learning, and signal and image processing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Patel<\/span>\u00a0is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence<\/em> journal and serves on the Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He serves as the vice president of conferences for the IEEE Biometrics Council.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has received a number of awards including the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award, the 2021 NSF CAREER Award, the 2021 IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award (YBIA), the\u00a0IEEE ICIP in 2021, the<\/span>\u00a0Best Paper Award at IEEE AVSS in 2019 and 2017, the\u00a0IAPR ICB in 2018,\u00a0two Best Student Paper Awards at IAPR ICPR in 2018,\u00a0<\/span>the 2016 ONR Young Investigator Award, the 2016 Jimmy Lin Award for Invention, the A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award, and the Best Paper Award at IEEE BTAS in 2015. He was also named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 2024 and a 2026 IEEE Fellow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to joining Hopkins, he was an A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE at Rutgers University and a member of the research faculty at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). 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