Anil K Jain is a University Distinguished Professor and Douglas E. Zongker endowed professor at Michigan State University where he has taught and conducted research for 50 years. For his many advances in pattern recognition and biometrics, Jain was inducted into the United States National Academy of Engineering, Indian National Academy of Engineering, The World Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors. Jain served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and was awarded the Guggenheim, Humboldt and Fulbright fellowships along with the IAPR King-Sun