Venu Govindaraju

Vice President for Research and Economic Development, University at Buffalo
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department Computer Science and Engineering
Director, Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors
Director, NSF Center for Identiification Technology Research (CITeR)

Research Interests

AI, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval

Application Areas

Biometrics: Face, Fingerpint, Iris, Multi-biometrics, Fusion, Soft biometrics, Behavioral biometrics
Document Analysis and Recognition: Multilingual OCR, Digital Libraries, Historical documents processing
Augmented learning: Lecture video processing, Chart infographics processing
Video analytics: Activity recognition
Affective computing: Emotion analysis. Facial expression recognition

Curriculum Vitae

Venu Govindaraju - 2019

Contact Information

113H Davis Hall
University at Buffalo
Amherst, NY 14260-2500

Phone: 716-645-1558; Fax: 716-645-2377
Email: govind@buffalo.edu

Awards

Govindaraju is a Fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), the IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition), and the SPIE (International Society of Optics and Photonics).

He is the recipient of the 2001 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Young Investigator award, the 2004 MIT Global Indus Technovator Award, the 2010 IEEE Technical Achievement Award, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Distinguished Alumnus Award (2014).

Dr. Govindaraju is the 2015 IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award Winner and was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2015.

Honors

Fellow: ACM, IEEE, AAAS, IAPR, SPIE
IEEE Technical Achievement
MIT Global Indus Technovator
SUNY Chancellor’s Award
ICDAR Outstanding Young Investigator Award

Industry Awards

HP Open Innovation
IBM Faculty Research
Google Faculty Research
eBay Faculty Research
Fujitsu Faculty Research