Biography of Prof. Em. Dr. Horst Bunke

Horst Bunke joined the University of Bern as a Professor of Computer Science in 1984. He is now a Professor Emeritus. Horst Bunke served as 1st Vice-President and Acting President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He also is a Fellow of the IAPR and an Editor-in-Chief of the book series Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence by World Scientific Publ. Co. Moreover, Horst Bunke is a former Editor-in-Charge of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Electronic Letters of Computer Vision and Image Analysis, former Advisory Editor of Pattern Recognition, former Associate Editor of Acta Cybernetica, Frontiers of Computer Science, International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, and Pattern Analysis and Applications.

Horst Bunke is the recipient of the 2010 KS Fu Prize, awarded by the IAPR. Moreover, he received the IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award in 2009 and an honorary doctor degree from the University of Szeged, Hungary, in 2007. He held visiting positions at the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing (1987), the IBM Los Angeles Scientific Center (1989), the University of Szeged, Hungary (1991), the University of South Florida at Tampa (1991, 1996, 1998-2007), the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (1994), Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan (1995), Curtin University, Perth, Australia (1999), Australian National University, Canberra (2005), Autonomous University, Barcelona (2005), NICTA, Brisbane (2009), and NICTA, Melbourne (2011). Horst Bunke has more than 650 publications, including over 40 authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited books and special editions of journals. His h-index and g-index are 51 and 88, respectively, as determined by Google Scholar and harzing.com software. In the DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, which captures more than 1.8 million papers from the whole discipline of Computer Science, Horst Bunke ranks among the 70 most prolific authors in the Computer Science community.

December 2011