National Seminar on New Trends in Signal Processing (NeTSiP-2015)

Speakers

• Prof. Gaurav Sharma, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester Plenary Talk: Translating Signal Processing Theory Into Applications
• Prof. Balasubramanian R., IIT Roorkee, Topic:Content Based Image and Video Retrieval
• Prof. V.M. Gadre, IIT Bombay
• Prof. Kishore Bhurchandi, NIT NagpurTopic: 2D face recognition
• Prof. Rajbabu Velmurugan, IIT Bombay
  Prof. Santanu Chowdhury, SAC, ISRO, Topic: Audio Source Separation
• Prof. Mayank Vatsa, IIT Delhi
• Prof. P.C. Pandey, IIT Bombay
• Prof. Angshul Majumdar, IIIT, DelhiTopic: A Sparsity Based Approach Towards Fast MRI Acquisition

Speaker Profile

Dr. Gaurav Sharma, Professor,University of Rochester

Gaurav Sharma is a professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Rochester, where, from 2008-2010, he also served as the Director for the Center for Emerging and Innovative Science (CEIS), a New York state funded center located at the University of Rochester chartered with promoting economic development through university-industry technology transfer. He received the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh in 1996. From 1993 through 2003, he was with the Xerox Innovation group in Webster, NY, most recently in the position of Principal Scientist and Project Leader. His research interests include color science and imaging, multimedia/print security, and bioinformatics, areas in which he has 49 patents and has authored over a 150 journal and conference publications. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Electronic Imaging and the editor of the Digital Color Imaging Handbook published by CRC press in 2003. He is a member of the IEEE Publications, Products, and Services Board (PSPB) and, in the past, has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Electronic Imaging, the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Dr. Sharma is a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of SPIE, a fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and has been elected to Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Pi Mu Epsilon. In recognition of his research contributions, he received an IEEE Region I technical innovation award in 2008.

Dr. Balasubramanian R., Associate Professor, IITR

Dr. Balasubramanian R. has completed his B.Sc. (Mathematics) and M.Sc. (Mathematics) from University of Madras in 1994 and 1996 respectively. He has completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer science from IIT Madras in 2001.He has published around 86 Papers in Reviewed Journals and 7 Book Chapters.

His areas of interest are Computer Vision- Optical Flow Problems, Fractional Transform Theory, Wavelet Analysis, Image and Video Processing, Multimedia Security: Digital Image Watermarking and Encryption , Biometrics, Content Based Image and Video Retrieval, Hyper spectral and Microwave Imaging, Visualization, Volume Graphics

Dr. Kishor Burchandi, Associate Professor, NIT, Nagpur

Kishor Bhurchandi did B. E. and M. E.(electronics) from S G G S C E and T Nanded in 1990 and 1992, Ph.D from V R C E (VNIT) Nagpur in 2002. He has published more than 45 research papers including three SCI and four SCOPUS journal papers. He has authored a book on Advanced Microprocessors and peripherals for McGraw Hill. He got the selected author recognition from McGraw Hill for selling around 400,000 copies of the book. He has got three patents published to his credit. He is Principal Investigator of Two research Projects including one on Face recognition funded by BRNS and a center of excellence on ‘COMMBEDDED SYSTEMS’ at VNIT Nagpur. He is currently a Professor at Department of Electronics and Communication Engg. at VNIT Nagpur. His areas of interest include Image processing and computer vision, wavelets, man machine interface, Embedded Systems and Internet of things.

Dr. Rajababu Velmurugan, Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay

He has completed his PhD from Georgia Institute of Tech., Atlanta in 2007. He has completed his M.S. from, Clarkson University, Potsdam in 1998. He has complete his B.E.from Government College of Tech., Coimbatore in 1995. He is currently working in IIT Bombay as assistant Professor. He has worked in The Mathworks, Natick, USA and Larsen & Toubro (ECC) Ltd in the past. His Research Interest Include Statistical and digital signal processing, Signal processing system design, Particle filter applications, Target tracking systems.

Dr. Angshul Majumdar, Assistant Professor, IIIT-Delhi

Angshul Majumdar is an assistant professor at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi since October 2012. He completed his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2012. His research focuses on algorithms and applications of sparse signal recovery and low rank matrix recovery; his works on a wide range of topics including biomedical signal and image processing, remote sensing, data analytics and machine learning. Angshul has written over 100 papers in journals and top tier conferences since the inception of his research career in 2007. He has recently published a book on Compressed Sensing based MRI Reconstruction with Cambridge University Press.

Dr. S.L. Maskara

He has completed his Ph.D. in 1977 from IIT Kharagpur, M.E. (1964-66) from IISc Bangalore, B.Sc. Engg. (1959-63) from BIT Sindri. He is Life Senor Member of IEEE, Life Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India), Life Fellow of The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, Life Senior Member of CSI, Life MISTE. He is a Retired Professor of IIT Kharagpur (1966-2004), He was Dean of JIIT Noida from 2006 to 2011). He was also a Distinguished Professor at LNM IIT Jaipur (2005-06) & DAIICT Gandhinagar (2004-05) and Astt.Prof at BIT Sindri (1963-64). His teaching, Research and Technical Interests includes Telecommunications; Networking, Wireless, Mobile, Satellite & Optical Communications; Error Control Coding, Spread Spectrum & Multiple Access Techniques including CDMA; Engineering Education and Curricula Planning & Design.