Vijayakumar Bhagavatula

Interim Dean, College of Engineering, CMU
U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
DTIC Governance Committee Member, Heinz College

Bio

Vijayakumar Bhagavatula received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Since 1982, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Carnegie Mellon where he is now the U.A. & Helen Whitaker Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Bhagavatula’s research interests include computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms and applications and coding and signal processing for data storage systems. His publications include the book Correlation Pattern Recognition, 22 book chapters, more than 410 conference papers, and 210 journal papers. He is also the co-inventor of 15 patents. He served as a topical editor for Applied Optics and as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.

Bhagavatula has served on many conference program committees and was a co-chair of the 2008-2010 SPIE conferences on Biometric Technology for Human Identification, a co-program chair of the 2012 IEEE Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS) conference and a program committee co-chair for the 2015 International Conference on Biometrics (ICB). He has also received numerous awards and honors.