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

A Generalized Machine Learning framework for Continuous Monitoring of physiological conditions based on Fatigue and Intensity of activity in Daily Living

R. Chattopadhyay, G. Pradhan, S. Panchanathan,

2009

Modeling Context in Haptic Perception, Rendering and Visualization

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

2006

Haptic User Interfaces: Design, testing and evaluation of haptic cueing systems to convey shape, weight, material and texture in formation

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

2005

Real Time Human Activity Recognition Using Tri-Axial Accelerometers

N.C. Krishnan, D. Colbry, C. Juillard, S. Panchanathan,

2008

Methodology for efficient perception in exclusively Haptic environments

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

2006