Ramalingam "Rama" Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, who works at Johns Hopkins University.
[3] Before that, he was an assistant, associate professor, and later, director, of the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing institute.
[3] Ramalingam received his PhD of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University,[5][6] as well as his MSEE.
[2][7][8] During Ramalingam's time at the University of Southern California, he was worked at the Signal and Image Processing institute, as an assistant from 1981 to 1986, associate professor during 1986 to 1991, and director during 1988 to 1990.
[9] Ramalingam currently works at Johns Hopkins University, and is researching artificial intelligence, facial recognition, machine learning, motion capture, and computer imaging.