R. Manmatha

Interests

Multimedia indexing and retrieval, image and video retrieval, document image analysis, digital libraries, computer vision, information retrieval.

Biography

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, (1997), M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii (1986), B. Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1983).

Manmatha joined the College of Information and Computer Sciences in 1997 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, was a Research Assistant Professor from 1998 to 2006 and a  a Research Associate Professor from 2006 to 2016 and an adjunct Professor since 2016. He co-founded SnapTell (a mobile image search company) in 2006 which was acquired by Amazon in 2009. Since 2013 he is a Principal Scientist with A9/Amazon.