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Document Analysis and Recognition: Multilingual OCR, Digital Libraries, Historical documents processing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

Invited Talks

10/25/17 Handwriting Recognition - A Perspective on Two Decades of Innovations, CBIIT Speaker Series
05/16/16 Reading the Handwriting on the Letter, UB research that gave new life to the US Postal Service
12/17/15 Handwriting Recognition - A Perspective on Two Decades of Innovations, Indian Statitical Institute Kolkata
08/24/15 IAPR/ ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award Keynote, Nancy, France
12/30/14 Statistics 2013, Advanced Inst. of Mathematical, Statistics, and Comp. Sciences
12/20/14 National Conf. on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Image Processing
12/07/13 Large Scale Visual Commerce Workshop, at Int. Conf. Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia
02/22/13 International Conclave on Innovations in Engineering and Management, Patna, India
01/02/13 Machine Learning introduction, IDRBT Hyderabad India
01/02/13 Probabilistic Distributions, IDRBT Hyderabad India
02/20/13 Probabilistic Graphical Models, IDRBT Hyderabad India
07/24/12 9th Int. Joint Conf. on e-business and Telecommunications, Rome, Italy (Making Sense of all Things Handwritten)
05/08/12 NSF Workshop on Machine Learning, UC Berkeley, CA (From Data to Knowledge)
03/07/12 Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, NY
02/03/12 TACTIC Smart Facilities, TCS, India
12/05/12 eBay Research Labs, San Jose, CA
11/08/11 Tech Talk, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA
10/08/10 Software Systems Innovations Group, Fujitsu Laboratories, Sunnyvale, CA
10/04/10 Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, PA
05/06/10 Int. Conf. on Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images, Niagara Falls, NY
07/24/09 3rd Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, Barcelona, Spain
07/10/09 AI Lab, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
05/20/08 École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Québec
02/12/08 IDGA's Military Biometrics Summit 2008, Washington, DC
01/28/08 Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA
11/09/07 Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
02/22/07 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
12/01/06 Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
01/16/05 International Sanskrit Digital Library Workshop, Brown University, RI
10/10/03 Center for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
08/14/03 IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
05/09/03 Dept. of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
04/16/03 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
10/13/02 Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
12/03/99 Xerox, Webster Research Center, Rochester, NY