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 Human Movements Through Human Anatomy Based Coupled Hidden Markov Models
2006
A Methodology for Evaluating Robustness of Face Recognition Algorithms with Respect to Variations in Pose Angle and Illumination Angle
2005
Design of fast and efficient hybrid-FPGAS for numerically intensive applications in fluid dynamics and image/video processing
2004