Sethuraman Panchanathan

Sethuraman Panchanathan (born June 24, 1961) is Executive Vice President, ASU Knowledge Enterprise and Chief Research and Innovation Officer at Arizona State University (ASU). He is also Director of the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), Foundation Chair of Computing and Informatics at ASU and Professor in ASU’s School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.^[1] On June 13, 2014 he was nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the National Science Board of National Science Foundation.^[2]

Education

He attended the Vivekananda College (University of Madras), graduating in 1981 with a B.Sc. in Physics. Subsequently, in 1984, he earned a B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. In 1986, he completed his M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He later enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Ottawa, Canada. and received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1989.^[3]

Personal life

Panchanathan is married to Sarada “Soumya” Panchanathan, who is a clinical pediatrician at the Maricopa County Hospital,^[4] and is also a part-time faculty, teaching informatics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix Campus,^[5] and biomedical informatics at ASU.^[4] Together they have two children, Amritha, born Dec. of 1991, and Roshan, born May of 1994.^[1] Panchanathan is a Hindu and a vegetarian.

Career

Panchanathan moved to Arizona in 1997 as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at ASU.^[6] In 2001, he was promoted to full professor and founded the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC),^[7] which is focused on designing technologies and devices for assisting individuals with disabilities. He also founded and led the School of Computing and Informatics (2006-2009) and the Department of Biomedical Informatics (2005-2007).^[7] Panchanathan was appointed as the university Chief Research Officer in 2009, where he was responsible for conceptualizing and building large interdisciplinary initiatives at ASU.^[8] In 2011, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of ASU’s Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development, for the advancement of research, entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development activities.^[9] In 2016, Panchanathan was promoted to Executive Vice President, ASU Knowledge Enterprise and Chief Research and Innovation Officer at ASU.

Research interests

His research interests include Human-centered Multimedia Computing (HCMC),^[10] assistive and rehabilitative technologies,^[11] haptic user interfaces, face/gait analysis and recognition, medical image processing, media processor designs and ubiquitous computing environments for enhancing quality of life for individuals with disabilities.^[12] His research contributions have been disseminated in over 425 papers in various refereed journals and conferences.^[13] He also mentored over 100 students and scholars, which include graduate students, post-docs, research engineers and research scientists.^[14]

Awards

• Governor’s Innovator of the Year for Academia Award, Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Awards, Information Technology Centric Assistive and Rehabilitative Environments (iCARE) for Individuals who are Blind and Visually Impaired, Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing, 2004.^[15]
• ASU Leadership Award, “Outstanding service and contributions to the ASU Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the School of Computing and Informatics”, 2009.
• Academic Collaboration Award, Outstanding Contributions to Improving the lives of Individuals with Disabilities through the iCARE Research Project, ASU Disability Resources for Students, 2004.
• Best paper award, “Configurable Haptic Training System for Laparoscopy”, at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 16 Conference, CA, 2008.
• Canadian Advanced Technology Association (CATA) Best Graduate Thesis Award, Masters Thesis student Mr. Eric Chan, Toronto, 1994.
• Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 for CUbiC iCARE Note-Taker Project, World Finals in Touch and Tablet category, Warsaw, Poland, 2010.^[16]

Works

• S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, “Generalized Batch Mode Active Learning for Biometric Recognition” accepted for publication Pattern Recognition Journal, Elsevier, 2013.
• R. Chattopadhyay, Z. Wang, W. Fan, I. Davidson, S. Panchanathan, J. Ye, “Batch Mode Active Sampling based on Marginal Probability Distribution Matching,” Invited Paper. Accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) - Special Issue on the Best of SIGKDD, 2013.
• S. Panchanathan, T. McDaniel, V. Balasubramanian, “An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Design, Development and Deployment of Person-Centered Accessible Technologies,” Invited Keynote Paper. Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology (ICRTIT), 2013.
• S. Panchanathan, T. McDaniel, V. Balasubramanian, “Person-centered accessible technologies: Improved usability and adaptation through inspirations from disability research,” in Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on User Experience in e-Learning and Augmented Technologies in Education, 2012.
• R. Chattopadhyay, Q. Sun, W. Fan, I. Davidson, S. Panchanathan, and J. Ye, “Multi-Source Domain Adaptation and Its Application to Early Detection of Fatigue,” ACM Trans. on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 2012.
• R. Chattopadhyay, M. Jesunathadas, B. Poston, M. Santello, J. Ye, and S. Panchanathan, “A Subject-Independent Method for Automatically Grading Electromyographic Features during a Fatiguing Contraction,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 59(6), pp. 1749, 2012.
• S. Kumar, C. Konikoff, B. Van Emden, C. Busick, K. Davis, S. Ji, L. Wu, T. Brody, J. Ye, S. Panchanathan, T. Karr, K. Gerold, M. McCutchan, and S. Newfeld, “Flyexpress: Visual Mining Of Spatiotemporal Patterns for Genes and Publications in Drosophila Embryogenesis,” Bioinformatics, Vol. 27(23), pp. 3319–3320, 2011.
• J. Rosenthal, N. Edwards, D. Villanueva, S. Krishna, T. McDaniel, and S. Panchanathan, “Design, Implementation, and Case Study of a Pragmatic Vibrotactile Belt,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 60(1), pp. 114–125, 2011.
• S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian and S. Panchanathan, et al. “On the Results of the First Mobile Biometry (MOBIO) Face and Speaker Verification Evaluation”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 6388, pp. 210 – 225, 2010.
• L. Gade, S. Krishna, and S. Panchanathan, “Person Localization in a Wearable Camera Platform Towards Assistive Technology for Social Interactions,” Special Issue of Media Solutions that Improve Accessibility to Disabled Users, Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal, Vol. 5, pp. 52–69, 2010.
• M. Vankipuram, K. Kahol, A. McLaren, and S. Panchanathan, “A Virtual Reality Simulator for Orthopedic Basic Skills: A Design and Validation Study,” Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Vol. 43(5), pp. 661–668, 2010.
• N. C. Krishnan, D. Colbry, C. Juillard and S. Panchanathan, “Recognition of Hand Movements Using Wearable Accelerometers,” Special Issue on Wearable Computing, Journal of Ambient Intelligent and Smart Environments, Vol. 1(2), pp. 143–155, 2009.
• S. Panchanathan, N. Krishnan, S. Krishna, T. McDaniel, V. Balasubramanian, “Enriched human-centered multimedia computing through inspirations from disabilities and deficit-centered computing solutions,” in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human-Centered Computing, 2008, pp. 35–42.
• R. Greenes, and S. Panchanathan, “Biomedical Informatics in the Desert–A New and Unique Program at Arizona State University,” IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, pp. 150–156, 2008.
• D. Homa, K. Kahol, P. Tripathi, L. Bratton and S. Panchanathan, “Haptic Concepts in the Blind,” Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Vol. 71(4), pp. 690–698, 2008.
• K. Kahol, M. Leyba, M. Deka, V. Deka, S. Mayes, M. Smith, J. Ferrara, and S. Panchanathan, “Effect of Fatigue on Psychomotor and Cognitive Skills,” American Journal of Surgery, Vol. 195 (2), pp. 195–204, 2008.
• V. Balasubramanian, S. Krishna, and S. Panchanathan, “Person–Independent Head Pose Estimation Using Biased Manifold Embedding,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Vol. 2008, pp. 63, 2008.
• K. Kahol, and S. Panchanathan, “Neuro-cognitively Inspired Haptic User Interfaces,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 37(1), pp. 15–38, 2008.

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