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Jitendra Malik

जितेन्द्र मलिक
born 1960
Computer Science

Computer vision pioneer — teaching computers to see

Uttar Pradesh connection: Born in Mathura; B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur (1980)

Story

Prof. Jitendra Malik, born in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, and a gold medallist of IIT Kanpur, is a professor at UC Berkeley. Methods from his group — such as normalized cuts, shape context and R-CNN — are at the heart of how computers recognise objects in images today.

Key contributions

  • Algorithms including anisotropic diffusion, normalized cuts and R-CNN
  • ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award (2016); IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (2019)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society (2026)

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