Dr. Mohammed Javed

Dr. Mohammed Javed is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology at IIIT Allahabad,  he joined IIITA in the year 2018 as Assistant Professor. He has over 10+ years of research experience in the areas of image processing, pattern recognition, and image/video compression.

He is an External Affiliate Member of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University at Buffalo, New York, USA. In June 2023, he served as a Visiting Researcher at Takushoku University, Tokyo, Japan. Previously, during June–July 2022, he was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at the University at Buffalo, USA, working with Prof. David Doermann.

He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Mysore, focusing on detecting text in compressed document images under the supervision of Prof. P. Nagabhushan. His Ph.D. thesis was shortlisted for the 4th IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium (Hyderabad) and the ICVGIP Ph.D. Symposium (IISc Bangalore) in 2014.

Dr. Javed was a Research Intern at ISI Kolkata in 2013 and 2014 under Prof. B. B. Chaudhuri. He has authored more than 60 research papers and has presented his work at reputed international conferences including DCC2020, HIS2016, ICDAR2015, ICDAR2023, ACPR2013, ACPR2023.

He has supervised one Ph.D. scholar to completion and currently supervises two more at IIIT Allahabad. Dr. Javed regularly reviews for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Elsevier Digital Signal Processing, and others.

He successfully completed two R&D projects, one of which is funded by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Presently investigating a project supported by UPCST, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh on "Alt-Text Generation for Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals (BVI)". He received the SERB-DST Young Scientist Travel Grant for DCC2020 (USA) and GREC2023 (ICDAR2023, San Jose, USA).

He has received multiple grants from SERB-DST, CSIR, DRDO, and ISRO to organize international events such as ADASIVA (since 2018), IAPR-CVIP (2020), IAPR-CVMI (2022), and IEEE UPCON (2022).

Dr. Javed was the Organizing Chair for the inaugural edition of IAPR-endorsed CVMI-2022 and 9th IEEE UPCON-2022 held at IIIT Allahabad. He has presented his research in several countries including Malaysia, Morocco, UAE, France, Japan, and the USA.

iMeDIA Lab 
Address: Room 5402 Computer Center-III (CC3) 
Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh 211015, India

Email: javed.iiita@gmail.com, anjaligautam.iiita@gmail.com & imedia.iiita@gmail.com

Research Collaborations - https://imedia.iiita.ac.in/collaborators.php

Research Students (PhD and Projects) - https://imedia.iiita.ac.in/index.php#team

Other Outreach Activities:

• Indian Delegation [2025] to 16th SC42 Plenary at Sydney, October 20-24, 2025, Australia, 

• Indian Delegation [2024] to 13th SC42 Plenary at Seoul, April 22-26, 2024, South Korea

• Visitor [2023] - Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

• Visitor [2023] - Google Headquarters, Mountain View, San Jose, California, USA

• Visitor [2023] - Adobe World Headquarters, San Jose, California, USA

• Visitor [2023] - Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan 

• Visitor [2022] - Yale University, New Haven, USA

• Visitor [2022] - Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Visitor [2016] - Universite Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco

• Visitor [2014] - Ministry of Rural Development, Putrajaya, Malaysia

• Visitor [2014] - Putrajaya Corporation, Putrajaya, Malaysia

• Award & Recognition [2023] - DST Travel Grant to GREC2023 (ICDAR 2023), San Jose, USA

• Award & Recognition [2023] - INAE Fellow (Prof. U. Pal)-Mentee, ISI Kolkata

• Award & Recognition [ 2020] - Young Scientist DST Travel Grant to IEEE DCC2020, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

• Award & Recognition [ 2014] - Best Paper Award at IEEE ICSIP 2014, Bangalore, India

• Award & Recognition [ 2014] - Global Leadership Program (Advanced), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Award & Recognition [ 2013] - Global Leadership Program (Foundation), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Award & Recognition [ 2010] - Excellent Performance Award, IsDB, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

• Award & Recognition [ 2005] - Haji Bava Abdul Khader Memorial Award", Bearys Welfare Association