Ajita Rattani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Wichita State University. Prior to this, she was an Adjunct Graduate Faculty at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. She did her Post-doctoral studies from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, USA. Ajita obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Cagliari, Italy.

Her research interest includes Pattern Recognition, Classifier Fusion, Machine/ Deep Learning, Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Biometrics. She has bagged more than 100 research papers in high impact international conferences and journals. She is the co-editor of the Springer books titled “Adaptive Biometric Systems: Recent Advances and Challenges” and “Selfie Biometrics: Advances and Challenges”.

Ajita has been the recipient of the Best Paper and Poster awards at IEEE IJCB 2014, IEEE HST 2017 and IAPR Biometric Summer School 2008. She has collaborated with many eminent scientists across the globe in her field of research. She has also spent one year in University of Sassari, Italy (2006-2007) and six months in West Virginia University, USA (2009) as a Visiting Researcher.