Baba C. Vemuri

Baba C. Vemuri is the Wilson and Marie Collins Professor of Engineering and a distinguished professor at the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Department of the University of Florida. He is also the director of the Laboratory for Vision Graphics and Medical Imaging at University of Florida.

Education Baba Vemuri received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli in 1979. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Texas at Austin in 1982 and 1987 respectively.

Career He was a visiting faculty at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

His research interests span, High-dimensional Geometric Statistics, Information Geometry, Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis. He has published over 200 journal and refereed conference papers in these fields.

Awards IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, for “Pioneering and sustaining contributions to Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis,” 2017. Whitaker Foundation Award in 1994. US National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award (NSF RIA) in 1988.