Dr. Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan

Position

Director, National Science Foundation

Department

National Science Foundation

Research Profile

In June, 2020, Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan was appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump as Director of the National Science Foundation. Panch previously spent more than 20 years in leadership positions at Arizona State University, including service as Executive Vice President of ASU’s Knowledge Enterprise and Chief Research and Technology Officer for ASU. He is officially on an extended leave of absence from the university as he devotes his time to advancing the U.S. science and technology agenda on a national and global scale.

Publications

Recognizing Whole Body Movements and Gestures through Activities in Human Anatomy

K. Kahol, P. Tripathi, S. Panchanathan,

2005

Using perceptually-based face indexing to facilitate human-computer collaborative retrieval

J. Black, L. Bonnasse, P. Satyan, S. Ozer, S. Panchanathan,

2005

Generalized Query by Transduction for Online Active Learning

V.N. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty, S. Panchanathan,

2009

Using tactile rhythm to convey interpersonal distances to individuals who are blind

T. McDaniel, Krishna S, D. Colbry, S. Panchanathan,

2009

Combining Skin-Color Detector and Evidence Aggregated Random Field Models Towards Validating Face Detection Results

S. Krishna, S. Panchanathan,

2008