K Asari Vijayan
University of Dayton, USA
Biography
Vijayan K Asari is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ohio Research Scholars Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance at the University of Dayton (UD), Dayton, Ohio, USA. He is the Director of the Center of Excellence for Computer Vision and Wide Area Surveillance Research at UD. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1994. Prior to joining UD in February 2010, he worked as Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia for 10 years. He holds three patents and has published more than 600 research papers in the areas of image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, neural networks and high performance embedded systems. He has supervised 26 PhD dissertations and 40 MS theses in electrical and computer engineering. Currently several Masters and Doctoral level graduate students are working with him. He has received several teaching, research, advising and technical leadership awards including the University of Dayton, School of Engineering Vision Award for Excellence in August 2017, the Sigma Xi George B Noland Award for Outstanding Research in April 2016, and the Outstanding Engineers and Scientists Award for Technical Leadership from The Affiliate Societies Council of Dayton in April 2015. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE, and is a co-organizer of several SPIE and IEEE conferences and workshops.