Mayank Vatsa obtained MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from West Virginia University, USA. Currently, he is a Professor at IIT Jodhpur, India.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and IAPR, and a member of the National Academy of AI (USA).

His contributions have been recognized with the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Government of India and the IEEE Meritorious Service Award (2023).

He has served as Area/Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition and Information Fusion, the General Co-Chair of IJCB2020, and PC Co-Chair of FG2021, AVSS2021, IJCB2014, ICB2013.

He has also served as the Area Chair of CVPR, ICCV, ECCV and Senior AC of AAAI. From 2015 to 2018, he served as the Vice President (Publications) of the IEEE Biometrics Council where he led the efforts to start the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMETRICS, BEHAVIOR, AND IDENTITY SCIENCE.

He has also participated in several Indian government initiatives, including UIDAI (Aadhaar), designing biometrics Standards for e-Gov applications, Responsible AI, DigiYatra, and the formation of TIH of Computer Vision and ARVR at IIT Jodhpur.