Dr. Venu Govindaraju is a Distinguished 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.
Dr. Govindaraju has authored more than 300 scientific papers including 60
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 55 million dollars.The Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors
(CUBS) that he founded in 2003
has since received about 10 million dollars of research funding covering several
projects in biometrics, security, document recognition,
and retrieval.
Dr. Govindaraju has given over 80 invited talks and has supervised the dissertation
of 18 doctoral students. He has served on the editorial boards of premier
journals in his area and has chaired several technical conferences and workshops.
He has won several awards for his scholarship including
the prestigious MIT Global Technovator Award (2004) and the HP Open Innovation
Award (2008). He is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers), a Fellow of the IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition)
and a fellow of the IETE (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications
Engineers).
