Sethuraman Panchanathan Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Tempe, AZ (PRWEB) December 16, 2013 -- Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan, senior vice president for Knowledge Enterprise Development at Arizona State University, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.
Panchanathan is a professor in ASU’s School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering. He is also director of the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC).
“Dr. Panchanathan exemplifies the spirit of innovation, entrepreneurship and social responsibility that ASU aims to cultivate,” says ASU president Michael Crow. “As a faculty researcher, he directs a center devoted to creating technologies that assist individuals with disabilities. As senior vice president for Knowledge Enterprise Development, he leads and expands the research and entrepreneurship activities of one of the fastest-growing research enterprises in the country. His contributions to ASU and the community are broad and remarkable.”
Academic inventors and innovators elected to the rank of NAI Fellow were nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to innovation in areas such as patents and licensing, innovative discovery and technology, significant impact on society, and support and enhancement of innovation.
Panchanathan holds four U.S. patents that solve fundamental problems in multimedia. For example, he has developed a face classification system using curvature-based multi-scale morphology to classify an image by its most distinguishing features.
Another invention is a method for tracking objects from a video sequence by selecting regions that contain the objects of interest in the first and the last frame. And he has developed a method to produce a reconfigurable circuit device for running a computer program of moderate complexity, such as multimedia processing.
“I am happy that the research at the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) focused innovation and societal impact is being acknowledged through this recognition,” said Panchanathan. “I am grateful for the work of my students and researchers in CUbiC. This recognition also reflects the spirit of innovation that permeates through the New American University.”
Panchanathan has received two Microsoft Imagine Cup awards, the Governor’s Innovator of the Year for Academia award and the ASU Leadership Award. He has published or presented more than 400 papers in refereed journals and conferences, and is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Currently, Panchanathan serves as an associate editor for several journals, including the International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology. He is also co-authoring a book, “Haptics: Background, Technology and Applications,” to be completed in December 2015.
Together, the 143 innovators elected to NAI Fellow status hold more than 5,600 U.S. patents. Included in the 2013 class are 26 presidents and senior leaders of research universities and non-profit research institutes, 69 members of the National Academies, five inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, six recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation, two recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Science and nine Nobel Laureates.
The NAI Fellows will be inducted by Deputy U.S. Commissioner for Patents Andy Faile, from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, during the 3rd Annual Conference of the National Academy of Inventors in March.
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The National Academy of Inventors® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit member organization comprised of U.S. and international universities, and governmental and non-profit research institutions, with over 3,000 individual inventor members and Fellows spanning more than 200 institutions, and growing rapidly. It was founded in 2010 to recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual property, educate and mentor innovative students, and translate the inventions of its members to benefit society. The NAI edits the multidisciplinary journal, Technology and Innovation – Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors, published by Cognizant Communication Corporation (NY). http://www.academyofinventors.org
Amelia Huggins, Arizona State University, http://research.asu.edu, +1 (623) 330-4939, [email protected]
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