Kevin Bowyer, Schubmehl-Prein Family Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS.
ScholarGPS ranks scholars worldwide based on a matrix of research productivity, impact and quality.
Highly Ranked Scholars are authors whose ranking places them in the top 0.05% of all scholars according to the company’s formula. Rankings are classified according to specialty, discipline, and field. Bowyer was ranked No. 3 in his specialty, biometrics.
Bowyer’s research interests touch on many aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition, including biometrics, data mining, object recognition, and medical image analysis. An additional interest is ethics and computing.
“It is always a pleasure and an honor to be mentioned in such rankings of research productivity and impact. I have had the advantage of working with great colleagues and students throughout my career.”
Bowyer is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
He also received an IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to the science and engineering of biometrics and served as editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
Bowyer joins four other professors in the College of Engineering who were also ranked among the top three in their specialties by ScholarsGPS: Craig S. Lent, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering (cellular automaton); Ahsan Kareem, Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering (aerodynamics and wind engineering); Prashant Kamat, Rev. John A. Zahm Professor of Science and Concurrent Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (physical chemistry and photochemistry); and Martin Haenggi, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering (cellular network).
—Mary Hendricksen, Notre Dame Engineering; Photo by Wes Evard, Notre Dame Engineering