EAST LANSING, Mich. — A grant from NEC Corp. of America to Michigan State University’s College of Engineering will be used to support ongoing research on fingerprint matching and face recognition, and also will serve as seed money in initiating new projects in MSU’s Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Lab.
Biometrics research at MSU is led by Anil Jain, University Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering and an internationally recognized leader in the area of biometrics and pattern recognition research.
"NEC is a world leader in biometrics technologies, and MSU is one of the leading academic research labs in biometrics with a long history of collaboration with various biometrics companies,” Jain said. “This new relationship with NEC, and this gift, will allow us to identify new, challenging research directions in the growing field of biometrics recognition.”
“NEC is pleased to be supporting MSU, one of the leading academic organizations in the area of biometrics,” said Raffie Beroukhim, NEC vice president of biometrics solutions division. “Dr. Jain and his research staff have advanced the field of biometrics research, and in close collaboration with the Michigan State Police, a user of NEC’s Multi-Modal Biometrics Identification System, have developed new, innovative biometrics technology. We look forward to an ongoing relationship with the research lab.”
Since establishing its biometrics research lab in 1992, MSU has graduated 20 Ph.D. students who have completed their theses on the topic of biometrics; many of them are now internationally recognized biometrics researchers.
“Industrial/academic collaborations such as this relationship with NEC will foster advances in biometrics that will help law enforcement and forensic agencies worldwide,” said Jeremy Slavish, acting director of the Biometrics and Identification Division of the Michigan State Police.
For information on Jain’s work, visit http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/.
NEC Corp. of America is a leading provider of innovative IT, biometrics, network, and communications products and solutions. For more information visit http://www.necam.com/.
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