Umapada Pal received his Masters degree in 1991 from Jadavpur University and Ph.D in 1997 from Indian Statistical Institute. His PhD work was on the development of Printed Bangla OCR system. He did his Post Doctoral research on the segmentation of touching English numerals at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique), France. During July 1997-January 1998 he visited GSF-Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH, Germany to work as a guest scientist in a project on image analysis. From January 1997, he is a Faculty member of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His fields of research interest include Digital Document Processing, Optical Character Recognition, Medical Image Analysis etc. He has published about 70 papers in various international journals, conference proceedings and edited volumes. In 1993, he received CIMPA (International Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics) -UNESCO fellowships to participate in a summer school on Man Machine interfaces in France. In 1995, he received student best paper award from Computer Society of India. He received a merit certificate from Indian Science Congress Association in 1996. In 1999 he received CIMPA-UNESCO-CHINA fellowship to participate in a summer school in China, 1999. Because of his significant impact in the research domain of Indian language OCR, TC-10 and TC-11 committees of IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) presented ‘ICDAR Outstanding Young Researcher Award’ to Dr. Pal in 2003. Dr. Pal has been serving as a program committee member of many conferences including International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL), International Workshop on Frontiers of Handwritten Recognition (IWFHR), International Conference on Pattern recognition (ICPR) etc. Also, he is the Asian PC-Chair for 10th ICDAR to be held at Barcelona, Spain in 2009. He is a life member of IUPRAI (Indian unit of IAPR) as well as Computer Society of India.
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