This biographical article is written like a résumé. (November 2023) |
Sethuraman Panchanathan | |
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15th Director of the National Science Foundation | |
Assumed office June 23, 2020 | |
President | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Kelvin Droegemeier (acting) France A. Córdova |
Personal details | |
Born | Chennai, India |
Spouse | Soumya Panchanathan |
Education | University of Madras (BS) Indian Institute of Science (BEng) Indian Institute of Technology (MTech) University of Ottawa (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering Computer engineering Informatics |
Institutions | University of Ottawa Arizona State University |
Thesis | Algorithms and architectures for image coding using vector quantization (1989) |
Doctoral advisor | Morris Goldberg |
Sethuraman Panchanathan is an Indian–American computer scientist and academic administrator, and, since June 2020, the 15th Director of National Science Foundation.[1]
He previously served at Arizona State University as executive vice president of knowledge enterprise development and chief research and innovation officer. He was also director of the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), Foundation Chair of Computing and Informatics at the university, and a professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.[2]