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| alma_mater      = [[Bangalore University]]<br>[[Indian Institute of Science]], Bangalore<br>[[The Ohio State University]], Columbus

'''Sargur Narasimhamurthy Srihari''' is an Indian-American [[computer scientist]] and educator who has made contributions to the field of [[pattern recognition]]. The principal impact of his work has been in handwritten address reading systems and in [[computer forensics]]. He is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the [[University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences|School of Engineering and Applied Sciences]] at the [[University at Buffalo]], Buffalo, New York, USA.

Srihari received undergraduate degrees in Science and in Electrical Communication Engineering from the National College of [[Bangalore University]] and the [[Indian Institute of Science]] in [[Bangalore]] respectively.  He received Master's and Doctoral degrees in Computer and Information Science from [[The Ohio State University]], Columbus.

Srihari is the founding director of [[Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition]] (CEDAR) which was established with support from the [[United States Postal Service]].  Work at CEDAR led to the first handwritten address interpretation system in the world,<ref>S. N. Srihari and E. J. Keubert, [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=685138 "Integration of handwritten address interpretation technology into the United States Postal Service Remote Computer Reader System"] Proc. Int. Conf. Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 1997, IEEE-CS Press, pp. 892-896</ref> versions of which were deployed by the [[Internal Revenue Service]], USPS, [[Australia Post]] and UK Royal Mail. His subsequent work led to the first handwriting verification and identification system known as [[CEDAR-FOX]], which was granted a U.S. Patent in 2009. Srihari's work on the individuality of handwriting has been cited in [[Daubert standard]] and [[Frye standard]] hearings in United States courts leading to the admission of [[questioned document examination|handwriting evidence]] in those cases. Srihari served on the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] Committee on Identifying the needs of the Forensic Science Community which led to a highly influential report entitled "Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward" published in April 2009. He  has also served on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the [[National Library of Medicine]] for six years. Srihari has had a leading role in establishing the international conferences on document analysis and recognition, frontiers of [[handwriting recognition]] and [[computational forensics]]. Srihari is the recipient of the Outstanding Achievements Award of IAPR/ICDAR for 2011.<ref>[http://www.iapr.org/fellowsandawards/awards_icdar.php IAPR/ICDAR Awards ]</ref>

Srihari became an IEEE Fellow in 1995 and an IARP Fellow in 1996.

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