Vishal M. Patel
Also known as Vishal Patel
Vishal Patel works on computer vision, biometrics, and medical image analysis. He completed a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Maryland in 2010 under Rama Chellappa, served on the research faculty there from 2010 to 2015, and held an assistant professorship at Rutgers University. He joined Johns Hopkins in 2018. With Rajeev Ranjan and Rama Chellappa, he presented HyperFace in 2016, and in 2021 he received an NSF CAREER Award for learning-based restoration of images degraded by atmospheric turbulence. As of October 2026, he is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Johns Hopkins and a Fellow of the IEEE and the International Association for Pattern Recognition.
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- Johns Hopkins University
- Works
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Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 17 October 2026.
Timeline
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2004–2015
Degrees and Maryland research
He receives bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and applied mathematics in 2004 and a master's degree in applied mathematics in 2005 from North Carolina State University. In 2010, he completes a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Maryland under Rama Chellappa. From 2010 to 2015, he is a member of the research faculty at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
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2016
Young investigator at Rutgers
He receives the 2016 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers University, where he holds the A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship.
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2016
HyperFace for face analysis
In 2016, with Rajeev Ranjan and Rama Chellappa, he presents HyperFace, a deep convolutional network for simultaneous face detection, landmark localization, pose estimation, and gender recognition.
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2018–2019
Faculty at Johns Hopkins
He joins Johns Hopkins in 2018 from Rutgers University. In 2019, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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2021
Medical Transformer segmentation
In 2021, with Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Poojan Oza, and Ilker Hacihaliloglu, he proposes Medical Transformer, a gated axial-attention model for medical image segmentation.
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2021
CAREER and biometrics honors
By July 2021, he is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Johns Hopkins. He receives a 2021 NSF CAREER Award for learning-based restoration of images degraded by atmospheric turbulence, the 2021 IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2021 Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award.
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2024
An IAPR fellowship
The International Association for Pattern Recognition names him a Fellow in 2024 for contributions to image processing, computer vision, and biometrics.
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As of October 2026
Professor at Johns Hopkins
As of October 2026, he is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Johns Hopkins University, a Fellow of the IEEE and the IAPR, and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. His research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, image processing, medical image analysis, and biometrics.
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- Vishal Patel chosen for the A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award at Rutgers
- ECE Alumnus Vishal Patel Wins 2021 Early CAREER Award
- HyperFace: A Deep Multi-task Learning Framework for Face Detection, Landmark Localization, Pose Estimation, and Gender Recognition
- Vishal Patel receives NSF's Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award
- Deep Networks for Open Set Visual Recognition
- Medical Transformer: Gated Axial-Attention for Medical Image Segmentation
- IEEE/IAPR-TC4 Beyond Pixels: Continuous Neural Representations for Biometrics
- Young Biometrics Investigator
- Chronological List of IAPR Fellows