Sethuraman Panchanathan

Sethuraman Panchanathan
Dr. Panchanathan at ASU
Personal details
Born	(1961-06-24) June 24, 1961
Spouse(s)	Soumya Panchanathan, MD, MS[1]
Alma mater	University of Ottawa Indian Institute of Technology Indian Institute of Science University of Madras
Profession	Executive Vice President, ASU Knowledge Enterprise
Website	research.asu.edu

Sethuraman Panchanathan is Executive Vice President, ASU Knowledge Enterprise and Chief Research and Innovation Officer at Arizona State University (ASU). He is also Director of the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), Foundation Chair of Computing and Informatics at ASU and Professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.^[2] On June 13, 2014 he was nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the National Science Board of National Science Foundation.^[3]

Education

He attended the Vivekananda College (University of Madras), graduating in 1981 with a B.Sc. in Physics. Subsequently, in 1984, he earned a B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. In 1986, he completed his M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He later enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Ottawa, Canada. and received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1989.^[4]

Personal life

Panchanathan is married to Sarada “Soumya” Panchanathan, who is a clinical pediatrician at the Maricopa County Hospital,^[1] and is also a part-time faculty, teaching informatics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix Campus, and biomedical informatics at ASU.^[1] Together they have two children, Amritha and Roshan.^[2]

Career

Panchanathan moved to Arizona in 1997 as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at ASU.^[5] In 2001, he was promoted to full professor and founded the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC),^[6] which is focused on designing technologies and devices for assisting individuals with disabilities. He also founded and led the School of Computing and Informatics (2006-2009) and the Department of Biomedical Informatics (2005-2007).^[6] Panchanathan was appointed as the university Chief Research Officer in 2009, where he was resposethurnsible for conceptualizing and building large interdisciplinary initiatives at ASU.^[7] In 2011, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of ASU’s Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development, for the advancement of research, entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development activities.^[8] In 2016, Panchanathan was promoted to Executive Vice President, ASU Knowledge Enterprise and Chief Research and Innovation Officer at ASU. In this role, Dr. Panchanathan leads the advancement of research, innovation, entrepreneurship, economic development, strategic partnerships, and global development. Under his leadership, ASU’s research has grown exponentially with annual research expenditures quadrupling to half a billion dollars over the past 15 years. ASU is the fastest growing research university in the U.S and is one of the top 10 universities without a medical school in the U.S. ASU was named the Most Innovative University in the U.S. in 2015 and 2016, ahead of Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[9] In a 2017 Brazilian Congress of Industry Innovation panel discussion, Panchanathan highlighted how universities like ASU ought to work hand-in-hand with businesses to create curriculum that fosters the entrepreneurial traits employers look for today, in order to produce a future of innovation ecosystems.^[10]

Research interests

Dr. Panchanathan presenting at TEDxASU in Tempe.

His research interests include Human-centered Multimedia Computing (HCMC),^[11] assistive and rehabilitative technologies,^[12] haptic user interfaces, face/gait analysis and recognition, medical image processing, media processor designs and ubiquitous computing environments for enhancing quality of life for individuals with disabilities.^[13] His research contributions have been disseminated in over 425 papers in various refereed journals and conferences and edited more than 30 book and book chapters.^[14] He is recognized as a leader in the field of human-centered computing and informatics and has an h-index of 37 with over 5500 citations.^[15] He also mentored over 100 students and scholars, which include graduate students, post-docs, research engineers and research scientists.^[16] He spoke on the importance of fostering a culture of innovation to solve grand challenges that society faces today in a 2017 TEDxASU presentation.^[17]

Awards, appointments and fellowships

• Appointed to the National Academy of Inventors Board of Directors, 2017-2018.
• 20 People to Know in Arizona Education, Phoenix Business Journal, 2017.^[18]
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 2017.^[19]
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Alumni Association Awards of Excellence, University of Ottawa, Canada, 2017.^[19]
• Governor’s Innovator of the Year for Academia Award, Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Awards, Information Technology Centric Assistive and Rehabilitative Environments (iCARE) for Individuals who are Blind and Visually Impaired, Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing, 2004.^[20]
• ASU Leadership Award, “Outstanding service and contributions to the ASU Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the School of Computing and Informatics”, 2009.
• Academic Collaboration Award, Outstanding Contributions to Improving the lives of Individuals with Disabilities through the iCARE Research Project, ASU Disability Resources for Students, 2004.
• Best paper award, “Configurable Haptic Training System for Laparoscopy”, at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 16 Conference, CA, 2008.
• Canadian Advanced Technology Association (CATA) Best Graduate Thesis Award, Master's Thesis student Mr. Eric Chan, Toronto, 1994.
• Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 for CUbiC iCARE Note-Taker Project, World Finals in Touch and Tablet category, Warsaw, Poland, 2010.^[21]
• Appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. National Science Board (NSB) in 2014 for a six-year term.
• Appointed by Hon. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE).
• Chair of the Council on Research at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and co-chair of the APLU National Task Force on Managing University Intellectual Property.
• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• Fellow of the Society for Photo-optical Engineering (SPIE).
• Fellow of the Canadian National Academy of Engineering.
• Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.

Works

• R. Tadayon, T. McDaniel, S. Panchanathan, “A Survey of Multimodal Systems and Techniques for Motor Learning,” Journal of Information Processing Systems, invited manuscript, February 2017.
• S. Panchanathan, S. Chakraborty, T. McDaniel, R. Tadayon, “Person-Centered Multimedia Computing: A New Paradigm Inspired by Assistive and Rehabilitative Applications,” IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Vol. 23, pp. 12-19, August 2016.
• S. Panchanathan, S. Chakraborty, T. McDaniel, "Social Interaction Assistant: A Person-Centered Approach to Enrich Social Interactions for Individuals With Visual Impairments," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 10(5), pp. 942-951, 2016.
• S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, and S. Panchanathan, “Adaptive Batch Mode Active Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), Vol. 26(8), pp. 1747–1760, 2015.
• S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, Q. Sun, S. Panchanathan, and J. Ye, “Active Batch Selection via Convex Relaxations with Guaranteed Solution Bounds,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 37(10), pp. 1945–1958, 2015.
• S. Panchanathan, and T. McDaniel, “Person-centered accessible technologies and computing solutions through interdisciplinary and integrated perspectives from disability research,” International Journal Universal Access in the Information Society – Special Issue on User Experience and Access using Augmented and Multimedia Technologies, Vol. 14(3), pp. 415–426, 2014.
• V. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty and S. Panchanathan, “Conformal Predictions for Information Fusion,” Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 74, (1–2), pp. 45–65, 2014.
• S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, “Generalized Batch Mode Active Learning for Biometric Recognition” accepted for publication Pattern Recognition Journal, Elsevier, 2013.
• R. Chattopadhyay, Z. Wang, W. Fan, I. Davidson, S. Panchanathan, J. Ye, “Batch Mode Active Sampling based on Marginal Probability Distribution Matching,” Invited Paper. Accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) - Special Issue on the Best of SIGKDD, 2013.
• S. Panchanathan, T. McDaniel, V. Balasubramanian, “An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Design, Development and Deployment of Person-Centered Accessible Technologies,” Invited Keynote Paper. Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology (ICRTIT), 2013.
• S. Panchanathan, T. McDaniel, V. Balasubramanian, “Person-centered accessible technologies: Improved usability and adaptation through inspirations from disability research,” in Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on User Experience in e-Learning and Augmented Technologies in Education, 2012.
• R. Chattopadhyay, Q. Sun, W. Fan, I. Davidson, S. Panchanathan, and J. Ye, “Multi-Source Domain Adaptation and Its Application to Early Detection of Fatigue,” ACM Trans. on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 2012.
• R. Chattopadhyay, M. Jesunathadas, B. Poston, M. Santello, J. Ye, and S. Panchanathan, “A Subject-Independent Method for Automatically Grading Electromyographic Features during a Fatiguing Contraction,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 59(6), pp. 1749, 2012.
• S. Kumar, C. Konikoff, B. Van Emden, C. Busick, K. Davis, S. Ji, L. Wu, T. Brody, J. Ye, S. Panchanathan, T. Karr, K. Gerold, M. McCutchan, and S. Newfeld, “Flyexpress: Visual Mining Of Spatiotemporal Patterns for Genes and Publications in Drosophila Embryogenesis,” Bioinformatics, Vol. 27(23), pp. 3319–3320, 2011.
• J. Rosenthal, N. Edwards, D. Villanueva, S. Krishna, T. McDaniel, and S. Panchanathan, “Design, Implementation, and Case Study of a Pragmatic Vibrotactile Belt,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 60(1), pp. 114–125, 2011.
• S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian and S. Panchanathan, et al. “On the Results of the First Mobile Biometry (MOBIO) Face and Speaker Verification Evaluation”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 6388, pp. 210 – 225, 2010.
• L. Gade, S. Krishna, and S. Panchanathan, “Person Localization in a Wearable Camera Platform Towards Assistive Technology for Social Interactions,” Special Issue of Media Solutions that Improve Accessibility to Disabled Users, Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal, Vol. 5, pp. 52–69, 2010.
• M. Vankipuram, K. Kahol, A. McLaren, and S. Panchanathan, “A Virtual Reality Simulator for Orthopedic Basic Skills: A Design and Validation Study,” Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Vol. 43(5), pp. 661–668, 2010.
• N. C. Krishnan, D. Colbry, C. Juillard and S. Panchanathan, “Recognition of Hand Movements Using Wearable Accelerometers,” Special Issue on Wearable Computing, Journal of Ambient Intelligent and Smart Environments, Vol. 1(2), pp. 143–155, 2009.
• S. Panchanathan, N. Krishnan, S. Krishna, T. McDaniel, V. Balasubramanian, “Enriched human-centered multimedia computing through inspirations from disabilities and deficit-centered computing solutions,” in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human-Centered Computing, 2008, pp. 35–42.
• R. Greenes, and S. Panchanathan, “Biomedical Informatics in the Desert–A New and Unique Program at Arizona State University,” IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, pp. 150–156, 2008.
• D. Homa, K. Kahol, P. Tripathi, L. Bratton and S. Panchanathan, “Haptic Concepts in the Blind,” Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Vol. 71(4), pp. 690–698, 2008.
• K. Kahol, M. Leyba, M. Deka, V. Deka, S. Mayes, M. Smith, J. Ferrara, and S. Panchanathan, “Effect of Fatigue on Psychomotor and Cognitive Skills,” American Journal of Surgery, Vol. 195 (2), pp. 195–204, 2008.
• V. Balasubramanian, S. Krishna, and S. Panchanathan, “Person–Independent Head Pose Estimation Using Biased Manifold Embedding,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Vol. 2008, pp. 63, 2008.
• K. Kahol, and S. Panchanathan, “Neuro-cognitively Inspired Haptic User Interfaces,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 37(1), pp. 15–38, 2008.

References

External Links

• ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development