Keinosuke Fukunaga is a Japanese American scientist and educator known for his contributions to statistical pattern recognition.
Fukunaga published some of the earliest monographs in the field of machine learning.
He is the author of the book Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition, first published in 1972 by Academic Press.
[3] He has been on the faculty of Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1966.
He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers "(f)or contributions to statistical pattern recognition" in 1979.