Richa Singh is an Indian computer scientist whose research areas are biometrics, including face recognition and iris recognition, pattern recognition, dependable deep learning, and more recently generative AI. She is a professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Jodhpur.
Singh earned a Ph.D. in computer science in 2008 from West Virginia University. Her dissertation, Mitigating the Effect of Covariates in Face Recognition, was supervised by Afzel Noore.
She became an assistant professor at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi in 2009, and was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and full professor in 2019. In 2019, she moved to her present position at IIT Jodhpur.
She has served in many roles including the PC Chair of CVPR 2022, General Chair of FG 2021, and Vice President of Publications for the IEEE Biometrics Council.