Narendra Ahuja

Narendra Ahuja is the Donald Biggar Willet Professor Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and continues to work as a research professor at the University of Illinois. His research concerns computer vision.[1]

Education and career

Ahuja earned a bachelor's degree in 1972 from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India. He earned a master's degree in 1974 from the Indian Institute of Science, and completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 1979 from the University of Maryland, College Park. As well as his work at the University of Illinois, he was founding director of the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad from 1999 to 2002.[1]

Awards and honors

Ahuja was the 1998 recipient of the SPIE Technology Achievement Award,[2] and the 1999 recipient of the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award "for contributions to computer vision and image processing".[3] The professional societies in which he is a fellow include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Association for Pattern Recognition, and International Society for Optical Engineering.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Narendra Ahuja Biography, University of Illinois, retrieved 2017-06-17
  2. ↑ SPIE Technology Achievement Award, retrieved 2017-06-17
  3. ↑ IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients, retrieved 2017-06-17
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