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, he has made significant
contributions to many areas of pattern recognition such as image
analysis and pattern recognition.
Dr. Govindaraju is currently working on extending his expertise
in the automated recognition of both machine-printed
and hand-written text in Latin script to Arabic and Indic scripts for indexing and searching documents. Dr. Govindaraju's foray into the field of biometrics began
with his dissertation on the automated recognition of faces over two decades
ago. His recent multi-disciplinary efforts include novel applications such as use of facial
expressions for remote biometric authentication.
Dr. Govindaraju has authored more than 260 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. His leadership and initiative
in establishing the testing and evaluation lab at CEDAR in 1998 has generated
over 15 million dollars of sustained US postal funding since. 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 60 invited
talks and has supervised the dissertation of 17 doctoral
students and the theses of over 20 masters 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).
