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

Enriched human-centered multimedia computing through inspirations from disabilities and deficit centered computing solutions

S. Panchanathan, N.C. Krishnan, Krishna S, T. McDaniel, V. Balasubramanian,

2008

The iCARE Ambient Interactive Shopping Environment

S. Krishna, V.N. Balasubramanian, N.C. Krishnan, T. Hedgpeth, S. Panchanathan,

2008

Implication of multimodality in ambient interfaces

P. Tripathi, S. Panchanathan,

2008

Integration of RFID and Computer Vision for Remote Object Perception for Individuals Who Are Blind

McDaniel T, Kahol K, Villanueva D, Panchanathan S,

2008

Person-Independent Head Pose Estimation using Biased Manifold Embedding

V.N. Balasubramanian, S. Krishna, S. Panchanathan,

2008