Professor Nalini Ratha
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at University at Buffalo-SUNY
Director, Trustworthy and Responsible AI Lab (TRAIL)
TRAIL LabPublications
Professor Ratha’s research in biometrics, artificial intelligence, and computer vision is organized into thematic clusters of journal and conference papers:
- Biometric Recognition and Authentication - Fingerprint, iris, and face recognition.
- Adversarial Robustness and Deepfake Detection - AI robustness and deepfake detection.
- Privacy-Preserving AI and Encryption - Secure biometric processing.
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Image processing and analytics.
- Biometric System Design and Evaluation - System performance and biometrics.
Patents
Named IBM Master Inventor (2018), Professor Ratha holds patents in biometric security and AI systems.
Recent patents:
- Secure matching and identification of patterns (US Patent 11,816,142, 2023)
- Decision tree-based inference on homomorphically-encrypted data (US Patent 11,764,941, 2023)
Books
Professor Ratha has authored influential books on biometrics and AI.
Notable books:
- Domain Adaptation for Visual Understanding (Springer, 2020)
- Advances in Biometrics (Springer, 2007)
- Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems (Springer, 2003)
- A Guide to Biometrics Selection and System Design (Springer, 2004)
Awards
Professor Ratha’s contributions have earned prestigious recognitions.
- National Academy of Inventors Fellow (2021)
- ACM Distinguished Member (2015)
- IEEE Fellow (2007)
- IAPR Fellow (2008)
- IEEE Biometrics Council Leadership Award (2019)
- IBM Master Inventor (2018)
- IBM Research Division Award (2019)
- IBM Invention Plateau Awards (17th–22nd, 2018–2019)
- National Merit Scholarship, Government of India (1977–1982)
- First in Order of Merit, Intermediate Science, Berhampur University (1977)