Basantkumar John Oommen (born 8 September 1953 in Conoor, India[1]) is an Indian-Canadian computer scientist. Oommen received the Master of Science degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1979, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Purdue University in 1982, and is now Chancellor's Professor at the School of Computer Science, Carleton University.
Recognition and awards edit
- Fellow of the IAPR,[2] August 2006
- Chancellor's Professorship, lifetime award bestowed by the University to professors who have excelled in research, July 2006[citation needed]
- Fellow of the IEEE,[3] January 2003
- Electrical Engineering Gold Medal Winner 1977, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, for best graduating student[citation needed]
- Siemens-India Meda 1975, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, for best graduating student from the Department of Electrical Engineering[citation needed]
- Kaloori Medal 1974, IIT Madras[citation needed]
Patents edit
- A Method of Generating Attribute Cardinality Maps
- A Method for Recognizing Trees by Processing Potentially Noisy Subsequence Trees
- A Method for Encryption with Statistical Perfect Secrecy
- Search-Enhanced Trie-Based Syntactic Pattern Recognition of Sequences
References edit
- ^ Awards and Honors. Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine SMC Newsletter, January 2003, IEEE. Accessed 14 March 2010.
- ^ IAPR Fellows, IAPR. Accessed 14 March 2010. Election citation: "For contributions to fundamental and applied problems in syntactic and statistical pattern recognition".
- ^ IEEE list of Fellows.
External links edit
- Web page of B. John Oommen at School of Computer Science, Carleton University
- John Oommen's list of publications