Dr. Venu Govindaraju is a Professor of Computer
Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo). He
received his B-Tech (Honors) from the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India in 1986, and his Ph.D. from
UB in 1992.
In a research career spanning over 20 years, Dr. Govindaraju has made significant
contributions to many areas of pattern recognition which is a major
branch in the field of Artificial Intelligence within Computer Science. Much of
his early work focused on the automated recognition of written
language, both machine-printed and hand-written text, and more recently his research has expanded to Information Retrieval and Biometrics.
Dr. Govindaraju has authored more than 270 scientific papers
including 50 journal papers. His seminal
work in handwriting recognition was at the core of the first handwritten
address interpretation system used by the US Postal Service. He was also the
prime technical lead responsible for technology transfer to Lockheed Martin
and Siemens Corporation for deployment by the US Postal Service, Australia
Post and UK Royal Mail. Dr. Govindaraju has been the Principal or Co-principal investigator of projects funded
by government and industry
for about 50 million dollars.The Center for
Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS)
that he founded in 2003 has since received over 8 million dollars of research
funding covering several projects.
Dr. Govindaraju has given over 75 invited
talks and has supervised the dissertation of 17 doctoral
students. He has served on
the editorial boards of premier journals in his
area and has chaired several technical conferences
and workshops. Dr. Govindaraju has won several awards
for his scholarship icluding the prestigious MIT Global echnovator Award . He is a Fellow of the IEEE
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and a Fellow of the IAPR (International Association
of Pattern Recognition).
