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Document Analysis and Recognition: Multilingual OCR, Digital Libraries, Historical documents processing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