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Document Analysis and Recognition: Multilingual OCR, Digital Libraries, Historical documents processing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
Contact Information
113H Davis Hall
University at Buffalo
Amherst, NY 14260-2500
Phone: 716-645-1558; Fax: 716-645-2377
Email: govind@buffalo.edu
Citation Impact
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