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 Comprehensive Curriculum for IT Education and Workforce Development: An Engineering Approach
2001
A Lifting Based System for Compression and Classification trade off in the JPEG2000 framework
2004
iCare – A user centric Approach to the development of assistive devices for the blind and visually impaired
2003
Visual Concept Derivation from Natural Scenery Images Using Lexical Basis Functions, Multidimensional Scaling, and Density Clustering.
2003