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

Neural Network Approach for Image Chromatic Adaptation for Skin Color Detection

N. Bourbakis, P. Kakumanu, S. Makrogiannis, R. Bryll, S. Panchanathan,

2007

Documenting Motion Sequences: Development of a Personalized Annotation System

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

2006

Design of Embedded Compute Intensive Processing Elements and their Scheduling in a Reconfigurable Environment

A. Dasu, A. Sudarsanam, S. Panchanathan,

2005

The iCare iReader Project

T. Hedgpeth, M. Rush, J. Black, S. Panchanathan,

2005

Distal Object Perception Through Haptic User Interfaces for Individuals who are Blind

K. Kahol, S. Panchanathan,

2006