Dr. Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan

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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

Comparison of spatio-temporal exploration of everyday objects in touch and vision.
P. Tripathi, S. Panchanathan,
2008
Multiple Cue Integration in Transductive Confidence Machines for Head Pose Classification
V. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty, S. Panchanathan,
2008
Error resiliency schemes in H.264/AVC standard
S. Kumar, L. Xu, K.M. Mandal, S. Panchanathan,
2006
Network performance analysis of advanced video coding schemes
O. Lotfallah, S. Panchanathan,
2006
A Demonstration of PhotoTacs - A Simple Image-based Phone Dialing Interface for People with Cognitive or Visual Impairments
M.J. Astrauskas, J. Black, S. Panchanathan,
2008

Projects

Motivated by the vision of the future, automated analysis of nonverbal behavior, and especially of facial behavior, has attracted increasing attention in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Human-Computer interaction. With facial expression being one of the most…

The goal of the project is to help people who are blind or visually impaired to shop independently. Present day shopping environments are centered around the needs of the consumer, and they aim to facilitate convenient access to different product lines varying from…

The inspiration for the iCare Reader was provided by focus groups of people who are blind, who asked CUbiC researchers for a reading machine that could be taken anywhere, and that was easier to use than the traditional flatbed scanning technology solutions that are…

The Remote Visual Explorer is designed to be an intuitive and natural extension of the human vision system. By integrating an eye-tracking monitor and a camera on a pant-tilt mechanism it allows an individual to explore a remote location. The user simply sits in front of…

CUbiC@ASU is engaged in an active collaboration with a high-volume cardiology practice catering to patients across Arizona - Advanced Cardiac Specialists - to design and develop computational tools and frameworks for cardiac decision support. While there are publicly…