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; for information about the DPRL, click on the image below.

I am the conference co-chair for Document Recognition and Retrieval XIX (with Christian Viard-Gaudin), being held in San Francisco January 24-26, 2012. Samy Bengio (Google) and Christopher Manning (Stanford University) will be giving keynote talks at the conference. The conference includes papers describing recent advances in document image analysis and region labeling, handwriting recognition, human factors in system training and evaluation, graphics recognition (e.g. chemical diagrams, tables, math), and retrieval using document images and graphics.