I am a professor in the Department of Computer Science at RIT, where I teach courses and carry out research in the areas of artificial intelligence and pattern recognition. I direct the Document and Pattern Recognition Lab (DPRL), whose members include undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science and Imaging Science. Information about my teaching and research are provided in the links above.

I am Conference Co-Chair for Document Recognition and Retrieval XX (with Bertrand Coüasnon), being held in San Francisco, Feb. 5-7, 2013. DRR is one of the leading venues for current developments in document recognition and retrieval research. We are happy to announce that Ray Smith of Google Research will be giving a keynote talk on the development of the widely-used Tesseract OCR engine.