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

Using a Haptic Belt to convey Non-Verbal communication cues during Social Interactions to Individuals who are Blind.

T. McDaniel, Krishna S, V. Balasubramanian, D. Colbry, S. Panchanathan,

2008

Modeling Context in Haptic Perception, Rendering, and Visualization

K. Kahol, P. Tripathi, T. McDaniel, S. Panchanathan,

2005

Adaptive Video Transmission Schemes Using Mpeg-7 Motion Intensity Descriptor

O. Lotfallah, M. Reisslein, S. Panchanathan,

2006

Automatic Annotation Techniques for Gene Expression Images of the Fruit Fly Embryo

M. Gargesha, J. Yang, B.V. Emden, S. Panchanathan, S. Kumar,

2005

Humans increasingly rely more on haptics in 3D shape perception with higher degrees of visual-haptic conflict

P. Tripathi, P. GVRM, Panchanathan S,

2008