Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh
University
Editor-in-Chief,
International Journal of Document Analysis
and Recognition (IJDAR)
Area Editor,
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
(CVIU)
General
Chair, 28th International Conference on
Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2026)
Program
Chair, 20th International Conference
on Document Analysis and Recognition
(ICDAR 2026)
Lehigh University
113 Research Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA
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758-5782
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Daniel
Lopresti received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth
in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from
Princeton in 1987. After completing his doctorate, he
joined the Department of Computer Science at Brown and
taught courses ranging from VLSI design to
computational aspects of molecular biology and
conducted research in parallel computing and VLSI CAD.
He went on to help found the Matsushita Information
Technology Laboratory in Princeton, and later also
served on the research staff at Bell Labs where his
work turned to document analysis, handwriting
recognition, and biometric security.
In
2003, Dr. Lopresti joined the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh where
his research examines fundamental algorithmic and
systems-related questions in pattern recognition,
bioinformatics, and security. On July 1, 2009, he
became Chair of the CSE Department and occupied the
position for 10 years through several reappointments
ending on June 30, 2019. Beginning on July 1, 2014, he
served as Interim Dean of the P. C.
Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science
for a year. On July 1, 2015, he was named Director of
the Data X
strategic initiative, a role he held until June 2020.
Dr.
Lopresti is a past Chair of the Computing Research
Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC). He also served
as President of the International Association for
Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
He is an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal
of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR),
and as an Area Editor for Computer Vision and Image
Understanding (CVIU).
He has co-authored over 175 peer-reviewed
publications, and is a named co-inventor on 24 U.S.
patents. Over his career, Dr. Lopresti has mentored
more than 70 undergraduate and graduate students and
postdocs, and personally facilitated professional
networking connections for hundreds more.
I assumed the role of Vice
Chair of CCC beginning in July 2020, and
the Chair
of CCC beginning in July 2022. By virtue
of serving as CCC Chair, I was also a member of
the CRA
Board of Directors. Effective July 2024, I
transitioned to the role of Chair
Emeritus, a position which I held through
June 2025.
Over the past several years, I assisted in
co-authoring a large number of CCC whitepapers
and RFI responses working with many computing
research leaders from around the country,
including:
"A
Research Ecosystem for Secure Computing,"
N. Bliss (Arizona State University), L. A.
Gordon (University of Maryland), D. Lopresti
(Lehigh University), F. Schneider (Cornell
University), and S. Venkatasubramanian
(University of Utah), November 2020.
"Artificial
Intelligence and Cooperation," E.
Bertino (Purdue University), F. Doshi-Velez
(Harvard University), M. Gini (University of
Minnesota), D. Lopresti (Lehigh University),
and D. Parkes (Harvard University), November
2020.
"Response
to RFI on Public and Private Sector Uses
of Biometric Technologies" (CCC RFI
Response), D. Danks (University of
California San Diego), M. Gini (University
of Minnesota), O. C. Jenkins (University of
Michigan), D. Lopresti (Lehigh University),
M. Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute), and K.
Siek (Indiana University, Bloomington),
January 2022.
"Response
to RFI to the Update of the National
Artificial Intelligence Research and
Development Strategic Plan" (CCC RFI
Response), D. Danks (University of
California San Diego), M. Gini (University
of Minnesota), O. C. Jenkins (University of
Michigan), S. Koenig (University of Southern
California), D. Lopresti (Lehigh
University), M. Mitchell (Santa Fe
Institute), K. Siek (Indiana University,
Bloomington), U. Topcu (University of Texas
at Austin), H. Yanco (University of
Massachusetts, Lowell), and M. Hunter
(Computing Community Consortium), March
2022.
"Response
to RFI on AI Accountability Policy"
(CCC RFI Response), N. Bliss (Arizona State
University), D. Danks (University of
California San Diego), M. Gini (University
of Minnesota), J. Gorman (Arizona State
University), W. Gropp (University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign), M. Hunter
(Computing Community Consortium), O. C.
Jenkins (University of Michigan), D. Jensen
(University of Massachusetts Amherst), D.
Lopresti (Lehigh University), B.
Selman (Cornell University), U. Topcu
(University of Texas at Austin), T. Toscos
(Parkview Health), and P. Wisniewski
(Vanderbilt University), June 2023.
"Response
to RFI on National Priorities for
Artificial Intelligence" (CCC RFI
Response), J. Biddle (Georgia Institute of
Technology), E. Bradley (University of
Colorado Boulder), D. Danks (University of
California San Diego), M. Gini (University
of Minnesota), A.K. Goel (Georgia Institute
of Technology), A. Guha (Northeastern
University), M. Hunter (Computing Community
Consortium), D. Jensen (University of
Massachusetts Amherst), S. Koenig
(University of Southern California), C.
Krintz (University of California-Santa
Barbara), D. Lopresti (Lehigh University),
A. McGovern (University of Oklahoma), D.
Molzahn (Georgia Institute of Technology),
R. Rajaraman (Northeastern University), A.
Singh (Carnegie Mellon University), M. Turk
(Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago),
and H. Yanco (University of Massachusetts
Lowell), July 2023.
"Response
to PCAST Working Group on Generative AI
Invites Public Input" (CCC RFI
Response), Maria Gini (University of
Minnesota), Madeline Hunter (Computing
Community Consortium), Sven Koenig
(University of Southern California), Daniel
Lopresti (Lehigh University), Rajmohan
Rajaraman (Northeastern University), Ufuk
Topcu (The University of Texas at Austin),
Matthew Turk (Toyota Technological Institute
at Chicago), and Holly Yanco (University of
Massachusetts, Lowell), July 2023.
"Response
to RFI on Developing a Roadmap for the
Directorate for Technology, Innovation,
and Partnerships at the National Science
Foundation" (CCC and GAC RFI
Response), Alex Aiken (Stanford University),
Nadya Bliss (Arizona State University),
Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado,
Boulder), Kevin Butler (University of
Florida), Tracy Camp (Computing Research
Association), David Danks (University of
California, San Diego), Catherine Gill
(Computing Community Consortium), William
Gropp (University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign), Peter Harsha (Computing
Research Association), Chandra Krintz
(University of California, Santa Barbara),
Brian LaMacchia (Farcaster Consulting Group,
LLC), Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University),
Brian Mosley (Computing Research
Association), Ann Schwartz (Computing
Community Consortium), Katie Siek (Indiana
University), Michela Taufer (University of
Tennessee, Knoxville), Ufuk Topcu
(University of Texas, Austin), Pamela
Wisniewski (Vanderbilt University), and
Holly Yanco (University of Massachusetts,
Lowell), July 2023.
"Response
to the National Institute of Justice's
Request for Input on Section 7.1(b) of
Executive Order 14110, "Safe, Secure, and
Trustworthy Development and Use of
Artificial Intelligence"" (CCC RFI
Response), Nadya Bliss (Arizona State
University), Kevin Butler (University of
Florida), David Danks (University of
California, San Diego), Stephanie Forrest
(Arizona State University), Catherine Gill
(Computing Community Consortium), Daniel
Lopresti (Lehigh University), Mary Lou Maher
(Computing Community Consortium), Helena
Mentis
(University of Maryland, Baltimore County),
Cris Moore (Santa Fe Institute), Shashi
Shekhar (University of Minnesota), Amanda
Stent (Colby College), and Matthew Turk
(Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago),
May 2024.
"Response
to the Defense Industrial Base Adoption of
Artificial Intelligence for Defense
Applications; Notice of Availability"
(CCC RFI Response), Alex Aiken (Stanford
University), Nadya Bliss (Arizona State
University), David Danks (University of
California, San Diego), Catherine Gill
(Computing Community Consortium), David
Jensen (University of Massachusetts
Amherst), Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh
University), Mary Lou Maher (Computing
Community Consortium), Cristopher Moore
(Santa Fe Institute), William Regli
(University of Maryland), and Matthew Turk
(Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago),
July 2024.
"CCC's
Response to the DOE's Request for
Information (RFI) on Frontiers in AI for
Science, Security, and Technology (FASST)
Initiative" (CCC RFI Response), David
Danks (University of California, San Diego),
Catherine Gill (Computing Community
Consortium), Ian Foster (Argonne National
Laboratory), William Gropp (University of
Illinois, Urbana Champaign), Daniel Lopresti
(Lehigh University), Manish Parashar
(University of Utah), Matthew Turk (Toyota
Technological Institute at Chicago), and
Katherine Yelick (University of California,
Berkeley), November 2024.
"CCC's
Response to the Request for Information on
the CHIPS and Science Act Section 10343.
Research Ethics" (CCC RFI Response),
Randal Burns (Johns Hopkins University),
David Danks (University of California, San
Diego), Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of
Virginia), Catherine Gill (Computing
Community Consortium), Daniel Lopresti
(Lehigh University), and Michela Taufer
(University of Tennessee, Knoxville),
November 2024.
"Future
of Information Retrieval Research in the
Age of Generative AI" (CCC Workshop
Report), James Allan (University of
Massachusetts Amherst), Eunsol Choi
(University of Texas at Austin / New York
University), Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh
University), and Hamed Zamani (University of
Massachusetts, Amherst), December 2024.
"Lessons
for Cybersecurity from the American Public
Health System" (CRA CCC Quadrennial
Paper), Adam Shostack (University of
Washington), L. Jean Camp (Indiana
University), Yi Ting Chua (University of
Tulsa), Josiah Dykstra (Trail of Bits),
Brian LaMacchia (FARCASTER Consulting
Group), Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University),
January 2025.
"Enabling
the AI Revolution in Healthcare" (CRA
CCC Quadrennial Paper), Mona Singh
(Princeton University), Katie Siek (Indiana
University
Bloomington), David Danks (University of
California, San Diego), Rayid Ghani
(Carnegie Mellon
University), Haley Griffin (CRA), Brian
LaMacchia (MPC Alliance), Daniel Lopresti
(Lehigh
University), Tammy Toscos (Parkview Health),
February 2025.
"CCC's
Response to the Request for Comments on
NSF's Proposed Intellectual Property
Options" (CCC RFI Response), David
Danks (University of California, San Diego),
Catherine Gill (Computing Community
Consortium), Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh
University), Brian Mosely (Computing
Research Association), Pamela Wisniewski
(Vanderbilt University), and Holly Yanco
(University of Massachusetts, Lowell),
February 2025.
"CRA’s
Response to the Request for Information on
the Development of an Artificial
Intelligence (AI) Action Plan" (CRA
RFI Response), Alex Aiken (Stanford
University), Gabrielle Allen (University of
Wyoming), Ovidiu Daescu (The University of
Texas at Dallas), David Danks (University of
California, San Diego), Sebastian Elbaum
(The University of Virginia), Rayid Ghani
(Carnegie Mellon University), Catherine Gill
(Computing Community Consortium), William
Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana
Champaign), David Jensen (University of
Massachusetts, Amherst), Ming Lin
(University of Maryland), Daniel Lopresti
(Lehigh University), Brian Mosley (Computing
Research Association), Manish Parashar
(University of Utah), Rajmohan Rajaraman
(Northeastern University), William Regli
(University of Maryland), Eve Schooler
(Oxford University), Shashi Shekhar
(University of Minnesota Twin Cities),
Robert Sloan (University of Illinois
Chicago), Michela Taufer (University of
Tennessee Knoxville), Matthew Turk (Toyota
Technological Institute at Chicago), Helen
Wright (Computing Research Association), and
Holly Yanco (University of Massachusetts,
Lowell), March 2025.
"CCC’s
Response to the Request for Information on
the Development of a 2025 National
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and
Development (R&D) Strategic Plan"
(CCC RFI Response), Catherine Gill
(Computing Community Consortium), William
Gropp
(University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign),
Ming Lin (University of Maryland - College
Park), Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University),
Mary Lou Maher (Computing Community
Consortium), Brian Mosely (Computing
Research Association), Manish Parashar
(University of Utah), Katie Siek (Indiana
University - Bloomington), Michela Taufer
(University of Tennessee - Knoxville), and
Adam Wierman (California Institute of
Technology), May 2025.
"Unique
Considerations for Evaluating Computing
Researchers" (CRA Best Practices
Document), Nancy Amato (University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Ovidiu Daescu
(University of Texas at Dallas), Maria Gini
(University of Minnesota), Gillian Hayes
(University of California, Irvine), Kate
Larson (University of Waterloo), Wei Li
(Texas Southern University), Ming Lin
(University of Maryland), Daniel Lopresti
(Lehigh University), Katie Siek (Indiana
University), Gene Spafford (Purdue
University), Ben Zorn (Microsoft), July
2025.
"The
Imperative for Grand Challenges in
Computing" (CCC Whitepaper), David
Jensen (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst), Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh
University), Mary Lou Maher (Computing
Research Association), Manish Parasar
(University of Utah), Rajmohan Rajaraman
(Northeastern University), William Regli
(University of Maryland), Mona Singh
(Princeton University), Holly Yanco
(University of Massachusetts, Lowell), July
2025.
"Concerning
the Responsible Use of AI in the U.S.
Criminal Justice System," Cristopher
Moore, Catherine Gill, Nadya Bliss, Kevin
Butler, Stephanie Forrest, Daniel Lopresti,
Mary Lou Maher, Helena Mentis, Shashi
Shekhar, Amanda Stent, and Matthew Turk, Communications
of the ACM, vol. 68, no. 9, August
2025, pp. 41-44.
"Hiring
and Promotion Guidance for Computing
Researchers," Nancy Amato (University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Ovidiu Daescu
(University of Texas at Dallas), Maria Gini
(University of Minnesota), Gillian Hayes
(University of California, Irvine), Kate
Larson (University of Waterloo), Wei Li
(Texas Southern University), Ming Lin
(University of Maryland), Daniel Lopresti
(Lehigh University), Katie Siek (Indiana
University), Gene Spafford (Purdue
University), Benjamin Zorn (Microsoft),
September 2025.
CCC presented during a number of panels at AAAS
2020 in Seattle -- click here
for details. A nice Lehigh story about my
involvement can be found here.
And here
is a link to a CCC blog posting about the AI
Roadmap panel I was involved in.
At the ICPR
2020 conference in Milan (virtual), I was
elected President of IAPR and
served in that role for two years after having
previously been elected to serve as Treasurer at
ICPR
2018 in Beijing. I served in the role of
Past President from 2022 through 2024. I also
served on the IAPR
Executive Committee during this time.
Artificial
Intelligence
I was interviewed by Priscilla Liguori for a
four-part series on the impact of AI which
appeared on 69 News (WFMZ-TV) on July 25-28,
2023. Click here
to watch the video.
On September 25, 2023, I appeared as a guest
panelist to discuss generative AI on WFMZ-Ch. 69
Business Matters hosted by Tony Iannelli.
Click here
to watch the segment.
I was interviewed by Priscilla Liguori for a
story on generative AI (“AI experts warn about
fake images being shared amid Israel - Hamas
war”) which appeared on 69 News (WFMZ-TV) on
October 23, 2023. Click here
to watch the video.
Cybersecurity
I was interviewed by Rob Manch for a story on
cyberattacks on physical infrastructure which
appeared on 69 News (WFMZ-TV) on November 28,
2023. Click here
to watch the video.
Effective January 1, 2020, I have been appointed
as a member of the Northampton
County Election Commission. This is an
incredibly important civic responsibility, at a
time when concerns about the trustworthiness and
the security of our voting systems has never
been higher.
"CCC / Code 8.7
Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern
Slavery" (CCC Whitepaper), Daniel
Lopresti (Lehigh University), Nadya Bliss
(Arizona State University), Mark Briers
(Turing Institute), Alice Eckstein
(UNU-CPR), James Goulding (University of
Nottingham), Anjali Mazumder (Turing
Institute), and Gavin Smith (University of
Nottingham), June 2021.
Proceedings of the Nineteenth
International Conference on Document
Analysis and Recognition, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science Vols. 16023,
16024,
16025,
16026,
and 16027,
X-C Yin, D. Karatzas, and D. Lopresti
(program co-chairs), Springer Nature, 2025.
One of my first papers, co-authored with
colleagues in 1991*, was recently voted into the
TCFPGA Hall of Fame (ACM/SIGDA Technical
Committee on FPGAs). The award presentation took
place at the IEEE
Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom
Computing Machines in April 2018.
* “SPLASH – Experience Building and Programming
a Highly Parallel Programmable Logic Array,” M.
Gokhale, W. Holmes, A. Kopser, S. Lucas, R.
Minnich, D. Sweely, and D. Lopresti, IEEE
Computer, January 1991, pp. 81-89.
Intelligent
Infrastructure
On behalf of the Computing
Reseach Association, I moderated a
Congressional briefing for the House Committee
on Science, Space and Technology on Jan. 30,
2018. Panelists included Henning Schulzrinne
(Columbia University), Matthew Wansley
(nuTonomy), Nadya Bliss (Arizona Statue
University), and Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia
Tech). Click here
for more details, and here
to read a CRA blog posting about the panel
session.
I also moderated a panel session titled
"Rethinking Approaches to Disaster Management
and Public Safety With Intelligent
Infrastructure" at the Annual
Meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in Austin, TX on
Feb. 16, 2018. Panelists included Michael
Dunaway (University of Louisiana, Lafayette),
Robin Murphy (Texas A&M University), and
Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of
California, Irvine). Click here
for more details, and here
to read a CCC blog posting about the panel
session
I am a co-leader of Lehigh's Nano/Human
Interfaces Presidential Engineering Research
Initiative along with Martin Harmer and Jeffrey
Rickman from Materials Science, Anand Jagota
from Bioengineering, and Kate Arrington from
Psychology. Click here
to read the announcement and click here for
the NHI website.
Data X Strategic
Initiative
Data X is a major university-wide strategic
initiative in the area of computing and data
analytics. Among other efforts, the initiative
included new faculty positions in CSE and other
key interdisciplinary areas across the
institution. I served as the Founding Director
of Data X from 2015 through 2020. For the
announcement, click here.
For the Data X homepage, click here.
Lehigh
Mountaintop Building C
For photos of Building C, once part of Bethlehem
Steel's Homer Research Laboratories, click here. After a
major renovation project, the CSE Department
moved into its new home in Building C in January
2018. My office is no longer located in Packard
Lab, it is now BC 215.
I have had significant involvement in the
development of Lehigh's new Mountaintop Project.
For coverage of this activity, which began in
Summer 2013 and continues to grow in size and
scope, click here.
New Paradigm for
Pattern Recognition Research
We are
investigating a fundamentally new approach to
conducting experimental pattern recognition
research. Based on advances made possible by Web
2.0 technologies, our vision addresses a number
of serious issues with the status quo, including
over-reliance on small standard datasets,
implicit bias in testing, and irreproducibility
of experimental results. For more details on
this idea which we call "DARE," click here.
Document Analysis
and Exploitation
We have
had an active research effort in the area of
document analysis and exploitation for several
years now. Much of this work has been conducted
in collaboration with colleagues at BBN
Technologies with funding from DARPA, the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Henry
Baird and I were principal investigators, but
congressional funding we received expanded the
project to include other colleagues, including
Hank Korth. To read a news article about the
award, click here.
Electronic Voting
I served
as an independent expert in the Banfield v.
Cortés lawsuit challenging the use of
certain electronic voting machines in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Click here
to learn more about the case.
Click here
for an excellent CCC-led whitepaper titled
"Research Opportunities in Evidence-Based
Elections" by Josh Benaloh, Philip Stark,
Vanessa Teague, Melanie Volkamer, and Dan
Wallach.
The PERFECT Project
A number of years ago we had a modest NSF
CyberTrust grant to study issues surrounding
the reliable processing of voting records,
including paper ballots. Investigators on
the project included George Nagy from RPI,
Elisa Barney Smith from Boise State, Chris
Borick from Muhlenberg, and Ziad Munson and
myself from Lehigh. PERFECT is an acronym
that stands for "Paper and Electronic
Records For Elections: Cultivating Trust."
Click here
for the PERFECT project website.
For access to an important collection of
scanned ballot images from a real election,
click here.
We acquired examples of two full-face
electronic voting systems manufactured by
Danaher and Sequoia. These systems match
those used in several PA counties, and were
purchased from government surplus auctions
on the web. For more information and media
coverage, click below:
For other past news on the e-voting issue, click
here.
Bioinformatics
Greg
Lang from Biological Sciences and I led a
team of student researchers in a 2014 Biosystems
Dynamics
Summer
Institute project. The topic of the
project was "Identification of Driver Mutations
in Experimental Evolution" and derives from
Greg's ongoing research. The Lehigh BDSI is
funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(HHMI).
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email address is expressed in image format to make it
more difficult for "bots" to harvest it for spam
purposes.
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