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ANIL JAIN is  a  University Distinguished  Professor and  Chair of the
Department of Computer Science at Michigan  State University, US.  His
research interests  include   statistical pattern recognition,  Markov
random fields,  texture   analysis,   neural  networks,    fingerprint
matching, document image  analysis and 3D  object recognition.  He was
the Editor-in-Chief  of the IEEE Transactions  on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence (1991-94)  and currently  serves as an  Associate
Editor of  Pattern Recognition,    Pattern Recognition  Letters,  IEEE
Trans. Neural Networks, Applied  Intelligence and J.   of Mathematical
Imaging and Vision.  He is the co-author  of Algorithms for Clustering
Data,  Prentice-Hall,  1988,  has edited   the  book Real-Time  Object
Measurement and Classification,  Springer-Verlag, 1988, and  co-edited
the  books,   Analysis  and    Interpretation    of  Range     Images,
Springer-Verlag, 1989, Markov  Random  Fields, Academic  Press,  1992,
Artificial Neural Networks  and Pattern  Recognition, Elsevier,  1993,
and 3D Object Recognition, Elsevier, 1993.  He was elected a Fellow of
the IEEE in 1991 and received a Fulbright research fellowship in 1997.
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