Bir Bhanu
Director
S.M. and E.E. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Image Processing Institute from University of Southern California in 1981.
M.B.A. from University of California, Irvine in 1984.
B.S. (with Honors) in Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi, India in 1972.
M.E. (with distinction) in Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1974.
Dr. Bhanu is the Bourns Presidential Chair, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Cooperative Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, Director of the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS), and the Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VISLab) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). In addition, Dr. Bhanu serves as the interim Chair of the Bioengineering Department at UCR. Dr. Bhanu also serves as the Director of NSF IGERT program on Video Bioinformatics. Dr. Bhanu was the first Founding Faculty of the Bourns College of Engineering and the Founding Chair of Electrical Engineering at UCR (1991-94). Prior to joining UCR, Dr. Bhanu was Senior Honeywell Fellow at Honeywell Inc. Dr. Bhanu has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, and has worked with Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation, INRIA-France and IBM San Jose Research Laboratory. Dr. Bhanu has been the principal investigator of various programs from NSF, DARPA, NASA, AFOSR, ONR, ARO and other agencies and industries in the areas of object/target recognition, learning and vision, image/video understanding, image/video databases with applications in security, defense, intelligence, biological and medical imaging, biometrics, autonomous navigation and industrial machine vision.
Publications
Dr. Bhanu is the co-author of eleven books (seven authored and four edited): Deep Learning for Biometrics(Springer, 2017), Video Bioinformatics - From Live Imaging to Knowledge (Springer, 2015), Human Recognition at a Distance in Video (Springer, 2010), Human Ear Recognition by Computer (Springer, 2008), Synthesis of Pattern Recognition Systems (Springer, 2005 ), Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition (2003), Genetic Learning for Adaptive Image Segmentation (Kluwer, 1994) and Qualitative Motion Understanding (Kluwer, 1992), Multibiometrics for Human Identification (Edited, Cambridge University Press, 2011), Distributed Video Sensor Networks (Edited, Springer, 2011), Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum (Edited, Springer, 2004), and Computational Learning for Adaptive Computer Vision (forthcoming, Springer). Dr. Bhanu has published over 500 reviewed papers, including over 150 journal papers and 57 book chapters. Dr. Bhanu has 17 US and International patents (plus 5 pending). Dr. Bhanu has been the associate editor/guest editor of many journals including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Robotics & Automation, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics-B, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Computer, IEEE Sensors Journal, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Analysis and Applications, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Autonomous Robots, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, International Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, and others.
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