Mark J. Burge

Dr. Mark Burge is the Senior Level for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Previously he led the Janus Program for unconstrained face recognition at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and served at the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director. He led research teams at the Swiss Federal Institute of Science (ETH), the Johannes Kepler University in Austria, and the MITRE Corporation. His publications include the three-volume set, "Principles of Digital Image Processing" which has been translated into both German and Chinese and "The Handbook of Iris Recognition." He holds a Visiting Professor appointment at the United States Naval Academy (USNA), is a senior member of the IEEE, and has patents in the fields of biometrics and image processing.

His interests include applied research in biometric identification from face, iris, and novel signatures found in "media in the wild"; video processing, analytics, and media triage; computer vision algorithms for segmentation, feature extraction, and motion estimation and tracking, digital image processing for enhancement and forensics; and information extraction from massive data sets using machine learning algorithms, deep learning, and statistical pattern recognition.