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
Enhancing Social Interactions of Individuals with Visual Impairments: A Case Study for Assistive Machine Learning
2010
Kernel Learning for Efficiency Maximization in the Conformal Predictions Framework
2010
Task Prediction in cooking activities using Hierarchical state space Markov Chain and Object based Task Grouping
2010