Short Bio:

Santanu Chaudhury did his B.Tech (1984) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engg and Ph.D (1989) in Computer Science and Engg. from I.I.T, Kharagpur,
India. Currently, he is Schlumberger Chair professor of Information Technology in the department of Electrical Engg. at I.I.T., Delhi. He is also Dean, Undergraduate Studies at IIT Delhi. He was awarded INSA medal for young scientists in 1993.  He is a fellow of  Indian National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences, India. His research interests are in the areas of Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia Systems.  He  has published more than 150  papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has been on the programme committee of a number of international conferences like, ICCV, ACCV, ICPR, ICVGIP, PReMI etc.