ITL’s Jonathon Phillips Named IAPR Fellow

Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips, Information Access Division, was recently selected as one of the 2008 International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Fellows.  Jonathon received this award for his extensive contributions to face recognition, empirical evaluations and the biometrics field.  This prestigious award is presented annually to individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the Pattern Recognition community. 

Dr. Phillips is currently the program manager for the NIST Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC) technology development program, aimed at improving performance of both face and iris recognition through a series of challenge problems and evaluation.  Dr Phillips’ work in biometrics has been reported in print media of record including the New York Times and the Economist.   Dr. Phillips is an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), and guest editor of an issue of Proceedings of the IEEE on biometrics.  He will receive the IAPR Fellow award at a special ceremony to be held during the next International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) in December 2008. 

Contact:  Martin Herman, ext. 4495