Biography
Richard Zanibbi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, where he directs the
Document and Pattern Recognition Laboratory.
He received his PhD in Computer Science from Queen's University (Canada), and was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI) in Montreal before coming to RIT. His research interests are in the areas of pattern recognition and machine learning, document recognition, information retrieval, and human-computer interaction.
Prof. Zanibbi's publications include papers in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, as well as international conference proceedings related to document recognition and human-computer interaction. He is the Conference Co-Chair for the 2012 and 2013 SPIE
Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR) conferences.
Dr. Zanibbi holds three US patents, and was one of the main contributors to the
Freehand Formula Entry System, an influential pen-based equation editing prototype.
