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

Retrieval of visual information based on the semantic models

Y. Park, F. Golshani, P. Kim, S. Panchanathan,

2002

Knowledge Guided Concept Annotation and Retrieval

Y. Park, P. Kim, F. Golshani, S. Panchanathan,

2001

Indexing Spatial Content of Still Texture in MPEG-4

J. Bhalod, M. Zubair, S. Panchanathan,

2000

The role of color in the content based image retrieval

S. Panchanathan, Y. Park, P. Kim, K. Kim, F. Golshani,

2000

Formalizing Cognitive and Motor Strategy of Haptic Exploratory Movements of Individuals who are blind

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

2004