Sethuraman Panchanathan profile, bio, wiki

Sethuraman Panchanathan (born June 24, 1961) is the Senior Vice President for Knowledge Enterprise Development 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 ASU’s School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. On June 13, 2014 he was nominated as a member of the National Science Board of National Science Foundation.

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.

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada 1989
• M.Tech., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India,  1986
• B.E., Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1984
• B.Sc., Physics, University of Madras, Madras, India, 1981

Personal life

Panchanathan is married to Sarada “Soumya” Panchanathan, who is a clinical pediatrician at the Maricopa County Hospital, and is also a part-time faculty, teaching informatics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix Campus, and biomedical informatics at ASU. Together they have two children, Amritha, 21, and Roshan, 18.

Research interests

Human-centered Multimedia Computing, Ubiquitous Computing Environments for enhancing qualify of life for individuals with Disabilities, and Haptic User Interfaces.

Honors and awards

• Fellow of IEEE
• Fellow of SPIE
• Member of Canadian Academy of Engineering
• Governor’s Innovator of the Year in Academia Award (2004)
• Microsoft Imagine Cup Awards (2010, 2011)

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