
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
Current Trends for Silicon and Embedded Computing Solutions for Automotive Applications
2002
Toward Semantic Interoperability in Description, Sharing and Retrieval of Media Objects
2001
Computational annotation of view, orientation and stage of fruit fly gene expression pattern images from early developmental stages
2004