Dr. Venu Govindaraju is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He received his B-Tech (Honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, and his Ph.D. from UB. He is the founding director of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors. He has authored more than 350 scientific papers and graduated 25 doctoral students. He has been a lead investigator on projects funded by government and industry for about 60 million dollars. Dr Govindaraju is a recipient of the IEEE Technical Achievement award, and is a fellow of the AAAS, the ACM, the IAPR, the IEEE, and SPIE.
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Major Technical Achievements

	Postal    :: Impact :: Developed handwriting recognition technology used by US Postal Service leading to savings of several hundred million dollars. “Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives” March 25, 2009”
	Web Security Innovated the first handwritten CAPTCHAs to improve web security “MIT” Tech Review January 09, 2009
	Privacy Preserving Biometrics Innovated a hashing method for storing and matching fingerprint data for cancelable biometrics US Patent 2011
	Multilingual OCR Steered the OCR community research towards including Indic scripts in digital library initiatives Guide to OCR for Indic Scripts
	Deceit Detection Developed automated techniques for analyzing eye movements and facial expressions. Can machines tell when a person is lying? UB News March 2012
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