An interview with Prof. Ramesh Jain

Abstract

Ramesh Jain is an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator. He is a Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine. Earlier he has been at Georgia Tech, University of California, San Diego, University of Michigan, and some other universities in many countries. He was educated at Nagpur University (B.E.) and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Ph.D.) in India. His current research is in Social Life Networks including EventShop and Objective Self, and Health Intelligence. He has been an active member of professional community serving in various positions and contributing more than 400 research papers and coauthoring several books including text books in Machine Vision and Multimedia Computing. He is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, IEEE, IAPR, and SPIE. Ramesh co-founded several companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. He also advised major companies in multimedia and search technology. He still enjoys the thrill of start-up environment. His research and entrepreneurial interests have been in computer vision, AI, multimedia, and social computing. He is the founding director of Institute for Future Health at UCI.