Ganesh Sundaramoorthi – Biography

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Ganesh Sundaramoorthi is currently Senior Technical Fellow of Research at Raytheon Technologies (RTX Research Center), leading and conducting fundamental and applied research in artificial intelligence (computer vision and machine learning)across government and internal RTX customers. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and jointly Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science at KAUST. He directed the Computational Vision Lab at KAUST, which developed novel mathematics and algorithms, as well as software for video and image understanding technology. His fundamental optimization algorithms have led to advancements in motion-based video segmentation and detection. His group also developed technology for seismic image analysis, electron microscopy images, and medical (MRI & CT) images.

Prior to KAUST, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2008 to 2010. There he made fundamental contributions to the view invariance problem in object recognition, and developed technology for video tracking. His PhD is in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, USA in 2008. His PhD developed fundamental shape optimization methods for computer vision that aided in technology for video tracking, and medical image analysis. His Bachelor's degrees were in Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics, which he earned in 2003, also from Georgia Tech.

He has served as Area Chair for the leading computer vision conferences, including IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) and IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).