10 Facts About Sargur Srihari

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Sargur Narasimhamurthy Srihari was an Indian and American computer scientist and educator who made contributions to the field of pattern recognition.

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Sargur Srihari was a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.

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Sargur Srihari received undergraduate degrees in Science and in Electrical Communication Engineering from the National College of Bangalore University and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore respectively.

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Sargur Srihari received Master's and Doctoral degrees in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University, Columbus.

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Sargur Srihari is the founding director of Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition which was established with support from the United States Postal Service.

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Sargur Srihari had a leading role in establishing the international conferences on document analysis and recognition, frontiers of handwriting recognition and computational forensics.

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Sargur Srihari served on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Library of Medicine for six years.

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In 2002, Sargur Srihari published a landmark study establishing the individuality of handwriting.

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Sargur Srihari served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Identifying the needs of the Forensic Science Community which led to a highly influential report entitled "Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward" published in April 2009.

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Sargur Srihari died from complications of glioblastoma on 8 March 2022, at the age of 72.

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