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 Haptic-Based Application for Active Exploration of Facial Expressions by the Visually Impaired
2014
Haptic Mirror for Active Exploration of Facial Expressions by Individuals Who Are Blind
2014
Detection of changes in human affect dimensions using an adaptive temporal topic model
2013