P. Anandan

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P. Anandan
Born	Madras, India
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (B.Tech, Electrical engineering) University of Nebraska (Masters in Computer Science) University of Massachusetts, Amherst (PhD in Computer Science)
Known for	Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence Computer Graphics Machine Learning
Awards	Distinguished Alumni award, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2006) Alumni award, IIT Madras (2010) Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research (2010) Hall of Computing, University of Nebraska (2010), University of Nebraska
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Thesis	Measuring Visual Motion from Image Sequences  (1987)
Doctoral advisor	Prof. Edward Riseman and Alan Hanson (Umass)
Doctoral students	Michael J. Black

Padmanabhan Anandan is the ex-CEO of Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, an independent not-for-profit Research institute focused on developing artificial intelligence based applications for social good. He was formerly vice president for research at Adobe Systems and prior to that a distinguished scientist and managing director of Microsoft Research. He was managing director at Microsoft Research India, which he founded in January 2005 in Bangalore. He joined Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington in 1997, where he founded and built the Interactive Visual Media group. He was also previously a professor of Computer Science at Yale University.