Venu Govindaraju

Venu Govindaraju is an Indian-American whose research interests are in the fields of document image analysis and biometrics. He presently serves as the Vice President for Research and Economic Development.[1][2] He is a SUNY Distinguished Professor[3] of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Venu Govindaraju
Vice President for Research and Economic Development
University at Buffalo
Personal details
Born1964
Vijayawada, India
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science and engineering
Pattern recognition
Machine learning
Handwriting recognition
Biometrics
InstitutionsUniversity at Buffalo
Doctoral advisorSargur Srihari

Education

Govindaraju received his undergraduate degree with honors (BTech) in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1986 and his master's and Ph.D.[4] degrees in computer science in 1988 and 1992 from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Awards

Govindaraju is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery,[5] the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers),[6] the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science),[7] the IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition),[8] and the SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics).[9]

He is the recipient of the 2001 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Young Investigator award,[10] the 2004 MIT Global Indus Technovator Award,[11] the 2010 IEEE Technical Achievement Award,[12] the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Distinguished Alumnus Award (2014), and the 2015 IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award.[13] He was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2015.[14]

Research career

After graduating with a Ph.D from the University at Buffalo, he worked from 1992 to 2003 as a research scientist at the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), at the University at Buffalo. He became Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Buffalo in 2000, a full Professor in 2002, and a SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank in the State University of New York system, in 2010. Govindaraju was the founding director of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors and has remained its director since its inception in 2003.[15]

References
  1. "Venu Govindaraju, Ph.D." University at Buffalo. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  2. Cory Nealon (11 January 2016). "Govindaraju named VP for research and economic development". University at Buffalo. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  3. Ellen Goldbaum (18 November 2018). "Govindaraju named SUNY Distinguished Professor – University at Buffalo". University at Buffalo. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  4. Venu Govindaraju at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Venu Govindaraju". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  6. "Venu Govindaraju". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  7. "AAAS Fellow" (PDF). American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  8. "IAPR Fellows". International Association for Pattern Recognition. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  9. "SPIE Fellow". SPIE. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  10. "IAPR Awards". International Association for Pattern Recognition. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  11. "Global Indus Technovator Awards". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  12. "Venu Govindaraju". IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  13. "Venu Govindaraju Honored for Groundbreaking Research". India West. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  14. "National Academy of Inventors Announces 2015 NAI Fellows". www.prnewswire.com. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  15. "Venu Govindaraju". University at Buffalo. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
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