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S. N. Srihari (Sargur Narasimhamurthy Srihari) is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
Early life and education edit
Srihari received undergraduate degrees in science and engineering from the National College of Bangalore University and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and postgraduate degrees in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus.
Career edit
Srihari is the founding director of CEDAR, the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition 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, versions of which were deployed by the IRS, USPS, Australia Post and UK Royal Mail. His subsequent work led to the first handwriting verification and identification system known as CEDAR-FOX, which is well-known in the Questioned Document community, and which was granted a U.S. Patent in 2009. Srihari's work on the individuality of handwriting has been cited in Daubert standard and Frye standard hearings in United States courts leading to the admission of handwriting evidence in those cases. Srihari served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Identifying the needs of the Forensic Science Community which led to a highly influential report entitled "Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward" published in April 2009. He has also served on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Library of Medicine for six years. Srihari has had a leading role in establishing the international conferences on document analysis and recognition, frontiers of handwriting recognition and computational forensics. He has published over 300 technical papers and books with a Google Scholar h-index of 34. During his career of thirty one years at the University at Buffalo he has supervised several hundred graduate students and researchers, including 34 doctoral students.