Jitendra Malik (born 11 October 1960) is an Indian-American academic who is the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

He has mentored over 60 PhD students and postdoctoral fellows,[5] a number of whom hold faculty appointments at major universities in the US—including MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, Caltech, Cornell, UIUC, U. Penn, and U. Michigan—and around the world.

[5] Several well-known concepts and algorithms arose in this research, such as anisotropic diffusion, normalized cuts, high dynamic range imaging, shape context and R-CNN.

[9] He received the gold medal for the best graduating student in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1980 and a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989.

[1] At UC Berkeley, he was selected for the Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in teaching in 2000,[10] a Miller Research Professorship in 2001,[11] and appointed to be the Arthur J. Chick Professor in 2002.