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
Low Complexity Block Motion Estimation using Morphological-based Feature Extraction and XOR Operations
2000
Pattern Recognition Tool to Detect Reconfigurable Patterns in MPEG4 Video Processing
2002
Adaptive Content Delivery to Assist Blind Students in Accessing course Materials
2003