Ramesh Jain

Ramesh Jain is an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator.

He is a Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine where he is doing research in Social Life Networks including EventShop and Objective Self. He has been an active member of professional community serving in various positions and contributing more than 400 research papers and coauthoring several books including text books in Machine Vision and Multimedia Computing. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS, AAAI, IAPR, and SPIE.

Ramesh co-founded several companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. He also advised major companies in multimedia and search technology. Currently he is helping shape Krumbs for building a Situation Aware Computing company.

His research and entrepreneurial interests have been in computer vision, AI, multimedia, and social computing.