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

Analysis of Low resolution accelerometer data for human activity recognition

N.C. Krishnan, S. Panchanathan,

2008

Biased Manifold Embedding: Supervised Isomap for Person-Independent Head Pose Estimation

V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan,

2008

Effect of Fatigue on Psychomotor and Cognitive Skills

K. Kahol, M. Leyba, M. Deka, V. Deka, S. Mayes, M. Smith, J. Ferrera, S. Panchanathan,

2008

Haptic Virtual Reality Simulator to Promote and Measure Haptic Differentiation Skill

M. Vankipuram, A. McLaren, L. Kauvar, S. Panchanathan, K. Kahol,

2007

Neurocognitively Inspired Haptic User Interfaces

K. Kahol, S. Panchanathan,

2007