title: Sudeep Sarkar
text: # Sudeep Sarkar
  
  Sudeep Sarkar is a professor and chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida, Tampa. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 for contributions to computer vision.
  
  ## Scientific career
  
  Sarkar has made many influential contributions to the field of biometrics, specifically gait biometrics, burn scar and skin analysis, and other areas in computer vision, particularly perceptual organization, segmentation and grouping, and to the evaluation of vision algorithms.
  
  ## Honors
  
  Sudeep Sarkar is a fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). In 2016, he was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
  
  