Sargur Narasimhamurthy Srihari (7 May 1949 – 8 March 2022) was an Indian and American computer scientist and educator who made contributions to the field of pattern recognition.

He received Master's and Doctoral degrees in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University, Columbus.

[1] Srihari is the founding director of Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) which was established with support from the United States Postal Service.

Work at CEDAR led to the first handwritten address interpretation system in the world,[2][3] versions of which were deployed by the Internal Revenue Service, USPS, Australia Post and UK Royal Mail.

His subsequent work led to the first handwriting verification and identification system known as CEDAR-FOX, which was granted a U.S. Patent in 2009.