Faculty

Biography

Vishal M. Patel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, image processing, medical image analysis, and biometrics. 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 2016 ONR Young Investigator Award, and the 2016 Jimmy Lin Award for Invention. Patel serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence journal and IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science. He also chairs the conference subcommittee of IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4). He is a fellow of the IAPR.