Computer Science

faisal farooq *** Lee Entrance, Suite ***, Amherst, NY 14228

Phone: 716-***-****,

E-mail: *******@*****.***

Website: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~ffarooq2

Summary

Broad spectrum of research in Pattern Recognition, Handwriting Recognition, Biometrics, Information Retrieval and Machine Learning Applications in Computer Science.

Education

PhD

Comp. Science & Engg., SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA

Feb 2008

MS

Comp. Science & Engg., SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA

Sep 2004

BS

Comp. Science & Engg., National Inst. of Tech., Bhopal, India

May 2001

Work Experience

Scientist, Computer Aided Diagnostics Group, Siemens, Malvern PA

May 08-present

Co-op, Exploratory Comp. Vision Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research, NY

Jan 07-Jul 07

Teaching Assistant, University at Buffalo,

Aug 04-Dec 07

Intern, Natural Lang. Proc. Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research, NY

May 05-Aug 05

Intern, Statistical Text Analysis Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research, NY

May 04-Aug 04

Research Assistant, CEDAR, University at Buffalo

Jan 03-May 08

Software Engineer, Enterprise Solutions Group, Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Aug 01-Jul 02

Patents

Secure Fingerprint Matching by Hashing Localized Information. (Provisional 60/779,121)

Publications

JournalsF. Farooq A. Bhardwaj and V. Govindaraju, Topic Categorization for Improving Accuracies in Handwriting Recognition, Intl. Journal of Doc. Analysis & Recognition, IJDAR (accepted), 2008.

F. Farooq, D. Jose and V. Govindaraju, Phrase Based Correction Model for Improving Handwriting Recognition Accuracies, Pattern Recognition (accepted), 2008.

S. Tulyakov, F. Farooq, P. Mansukhani and V. Govindaraju, Symmetric Hash Functions for Secure Fingerprint Biometric Systems, Pattern Recognition Letters, 28(16), 2427-2436, 2007.

F. Farooq, N. Ratha, T. Jea and R. Bolle, Anonymous Fingerprint Recognition with Implicit Registration, in submission.

F. Farooq, A. Bhardwaj, D. Jose and V. Govindaraju, Phrase Based Model for OCR Correction, in submission.

F. Farooq, K. Sridharan, M. Beal and V. Govindaraju, A Connectionist Network with Competing Neurons for Document Analysis, in submission.

Conference F. Farooq, D. Jose and V. Govindaraju, Phrase Based Direct Model for Improving Handwriting Recognition Accuracies, Intl. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR, 2008.

A. Bhardwaj, F. Farooq, H. Cao and V. Govindaraju, Topic based language models for OCR correction, Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, ACM SIGIR, 2008.

J. Li, S. Tulyakov, F. Farooq, J. Corso and V. Govindaraju, Integrating Minutiae Based Fingerprint Matching with Local Mutual Information, Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recog., ICPR, 2008.

F. Farooq, G. Chandalia and V. Govindaraju Lexicon Reduction in Handwriting Recognition Using Topic Categorization, Document Analysis and Systems, DAS, 2008.

F. Farooq, N. Ratha, T. Jea and R. Bolle, Security and Accuracy Trade-off in Anonymous Fingerprint Recognition, IEEE Biometrics- Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS, 2007

F. Farooq, R. Bolle, T. Jea and N. Ratha, Registration-Free Anonymous Fingerprint Recognition, IEEE Workshop on Biometrics, CVPR, 2007

F. Farooq and V. Govindaraju, Language Identification in Historical Afghan Manuscripts, International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, ISSPA, 2007.

H. Cao, F. Farooq and V. Govindaraju, Indexing and Retrieval of Degraded Handwritten Document, IJCAI Workshop on Multimodal Information Retrieval and Applications, 2007.

F. Farooq, L. Lorigo and V. Govindaraju, On the Accent in Handwriting of Individuals, International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR, 2006.

F. Farooq, K. Sridharan and V. Govindaraju, Identifying Handwritten Text in Mixed Documents, 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR, 1142-1145, 2006.

F. Farooq and Y. Al-Onaizan, Phrase-based Direct Model for OCR Correction, North-East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence, NESCAI, 2006

S. Tulyakov, F. Farooq and V. Govindaraju, Symmetric Hash Function based Secure and Cancelable Fingerprint Biometric System, 3rd International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, ICAPR, 30-38, 2005.

F. Farooq and Y. Al-Onaizan, Effect of Degraded Input on Statistical Machine Translation, Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, SDIUT, 103–110, 2005.

F. Farooq, K. Sridharan and V. Govindaraju, Classification of Machine-print and Handwriting in Arabic Documents, Symposium on Doc. Image Understanding Tech., SDIUT, 89-96, 2005.

F. Farooq, M.P. Perrone and V. Govindaraju, Pre-processing Methods of Handwritten Arabic Document Images, 8th International Conference on Document Analysis ad Recognition, ICDAR, 267-271, 2005.

F. Farooq, M.P. Perrone and V. Govindaraju, Processing of Handwritten Arabic Document Images, 12th Conference of International Graphonomics Society, IGS, 183-187, 2005.

V. Govindaraju, S. Khedekar, S. Kompalli, F. Farooq, S. Setlur and R. Vemulapati, Tools for Enabling Digital Access to Multi-lingual Indic Documents, Document Image Analysis for Libraries, DIAL, 122-133, 2004.

TutorialsJ. Pei, S. Upadhyaya, F. Farooq and V. Govindaraju, Data Mining for Intrusion Detection: Techniques, Applications and Systems, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE, 877, 2004.

F. Farooq, J. Pei, S. Upadhyaya and V. Govindaraju, Data Mining for Intrusion Detection: Techniques, Applications and Systems, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM, 2003.

Invited Talks

Arabic Handwriting Recognition – State of the Art, Summit on Arabic and Chinese Handwriting Recognition, SACH, Univ. of Maryland, 2006 Multilingual Digital Libraries – Issues and Strategies, User Interface Technology (UIT) Symposium, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, NY 2003.

Teaching ExperienceComputer Vision and Image Processing Fall 07, 05, 04Instructed a class of 20 graduate students twice a weekC++ for Non-majors Fall 06, Sp 06Instructed a class of 30 undergraduate students three times a weekSoftware Engineering Sp 05 Assisted students with projects and lab work.

Projects

Anonymous Fingerprint Biometric System

Developed a novel method for anonymous fingerprint biometricDesigned a registration free, cancelable and secure representation of fingerprints

Language Models and Automatic Topic Categorization for Information Retrieval in Handwritten Documents

Developed a framework to retrieve handwritten images based on text queries.Studying and developing techniques for topic modeling, lexicon reduction and retrieval.

Effect of degraded input on Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), IBM T.J. Watson Research

Study the effect of OCR errors on SMTDevelop a translation based direct model to improve the OCR accuracies

Symmetric Hash Function based Secure and Cancelable Fingerprint Biometric System

Developed a novel method for securing fingerprints by using symmetric hash functions.Involved in developing a secure and cancelable biometric system.

Discovering Unknown Encoding Schemes of Web Documents, IBM T.J. Watson Research

Developed and studied various statistical methods to discover the encoding of a document in a given language.Used language modeling and HMM to solve the problem.

Research in recognition of Arabic Handwritten Documents - IBM T.J. Watson Faculty Award

Developed pre-processing methods for Arabic documentsDesigned algorithms for distinguishing handwritten and machine print, line segmentation, word segmentation, de-slanting, de-sloping and baseline detection.

Barcode Evaluation, SUNY at Buffalo, (CEDAR)

Implementation and Evaluation of postal barcodes for U.S. Postal Services.

LeapSeek – A Content Based Fast Search Engine, Maulana Azad National Inst. of Tech. (MANIT), India, BS Dissertation Project

Developed a technique for caching frequent search results from a Google-like Search Engine for faster retrievalUsed ASP, PERL and MS Access to develop the system.

Security Software, First Prize winning entry at National Level Symposium, MANIT, India

Developed a diskette based, piracy protected, security application for windows in C, assembly, VBValidated a user on the key embedded in a sector of the disk used to load statistics from the database

Computer Skills

Languages: C/C++, Matlab, PERL, Java, VB and SQL.

Internet Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, JSP, ASP, PSP, and Servelets.

Software Packages: Oracle Apps 11i, Oracle Reports, Workflow Builder, Oracle 9i, MS SQL Server 7/2000, MS Office

Operating Systems: Windows 9x, Windows NT/2000/ME/XP, Solaris, UNIX, Linux

Professional Activities

Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - B, SMCBJournal of Information SciencesJournal on Pattern Analysis and ApplicationsIEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, Auto-IDInternational Conference On Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDARInternational Workshop On Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHRInternational Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR

IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, Auto-ID 200518th CSE Graduate Students Association Conference, University at Buffalo, 2005

Awards and Honors

Best Recruit 2001 amongst 160 from IITs and RECs (NITs) in Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Ranked First in State Pre-Engineering Entrance Examination amongst 25000 students

National level Software Symposium - First Prize for Security Systems Software

References

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