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'''Richa Singh''' is an Indian computer scientist whose research areas are [[biometrics]], including [[face recognition]] and [[iris recognition]], pattern recognition, dependable deep learning, and more recently [[generative AI]]. She is a professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at [[IIT Jodhpur]].{{r|iitj}}<br />
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==Education and career==<br />
Singh earned a Ph.D. in computer science in 2008 from [[West Virginia University]]. Her dissertation, ''Mitigating the Effect of Covariates in Face Recognition'', was supervised by Afzel Noore.{{r|diss}}<br />
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She became an assistant professor at [[Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi]] in 2009, and was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and full professor in 2019. In 2019, she moved to her present position at IIT Jodhpur.{{r|orcid}}<br />
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She has served in many roles including the PC Chair of CVPR 2022 {{r|cvpr2022}}, General Chair of FG 2021, and Vice President of Publications for the IEEE Biometrics Council. <br />
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==Prominent Recognition==<br />
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# Singh was named a Fellow of the [[International Association for Pattern Recognition]] in 2018, "for contributions to face recognition and pattern classification".{{r|iapr}} <br />
# She was named an [[IEEE Fellow]], in the 2021 class of fellows, "For contributions to robust and secure biometrics". {{r|fi}}<br />
# In 2024, she was also named a Fellow of [https://www.inae.in/ Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)]. {{r|inae}} <br />
# In 2025, she was named an [[List of distinguished members of the Association for Computing Machinery|ACM Distinguished Member]] for her impact in the field.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2025/february/distinguished-members-2024 |title= Renowned Computing Society Announces New Class of Distinguished Members: 56 Professionals Celebrated for Innovation and Service |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= February 12, 2025 |website= [[Association for Computing Machinery]] |publisher= |access-date= January 9, 2026 |quote=}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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<ref name=diss>{{citation|title=Mitigating the Effect of Covariates in Face Recognition|first=Richa|last=Singh|publisher=West Virginia University|type=Doctoral dissertation|year=2008|url=https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4420/|access-date=2023-05-04}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=fi>{{citation|title=Newly elevated Fellow class 2021|publisher=IEEE|url=https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2021-ieee-fellows-Class.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206062543/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2021-ieee-fellows-Class.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 December 2020|access-date=2023-05-04}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=iapr>{{citation|url=https://iapr.org/fellowsandawards/?ar=1|title=Alphabetical list of Fellows|publisher=International Association for Pattern Recognition|access-date=2023-05-04}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=iitj>{{citation|url=https://cse.iitj.ac.in/index.php/people/faculty-advisors|title=Faculty & Advisors|work=Department of Computer Science & Engineering|publisher=IIT Jodhpur|access-date=2023-05-04}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=orcid>{{citation|title=Richa Singh|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4060-4573|work=ORCiD|access-date=2023-05-04}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=inae>{{citation|url=https://www.inae.in/|title=List of Fellows|publisher=INAE Fellow Nov 2024|access-date=2024-10-25}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=cvpr2022>{{citation|url=https://cvpr2022.thecvf.com/organizers|title=CVPR 2022|publisher=CVPR|access-date=2023-05-04}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://home.iitj.ac.in/~richa/ Home page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313175223/http://home.iitj.ac.in/~richa/ |date=2024-03-13 }}<br />
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