Dr. Venu Govindaraju is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of
New York. He received his B-Tech (Honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), Kharagpur, and his Ph.D. from UB. He is the founding
director of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors.
Dr. Govindaraju works on machine learning and pattern
recognition and the application areas of biometrics and document
recognition. He has authored more than 325 scientific papers and
graduated 25 doctoral students. He has been the Principal or
Co-principal investigator of projects funded by government and
industry for about 60 million dollars. His seminal
work in handwriting recognition was at the core of the first
handwritten address interpretation system used by the US Postal
Service and was cited in the 2009 CCC Symposium on "Computing
Research that Changed the World".
Dr. Govindaraju has won several awards for his scholarship
including the 2010
IEEE Technical Achievement Award and the 2005 MIT Global Indus
Technovator Award. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, the IAPR,
and the AAAS.
