Subhasis Chaudhuri

Subhasis Chaudhury (born 1 March 1963) is an Indian electrical engineer, former director at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) and currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of BSE Limited. He is a former K. N. Bajaj Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Bombay. He is known for his pioneering studies on computer vision and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. He is also a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2004 for his contributions to Engineering Sciences.

Biography Subhasis Chaudhuri, born on 1 March 1963 at Bahutali, a small village in Murshidabad district, West Bengal to Santa and Nihar Kumar Chaudhuri, earned his graduate degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1985. Moving to Canada, he obtained a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary in 1987 and joined the University of California, San Diego for his doctoral studies from where he secured a PhD in 1990. He returned to India the same year and started his career at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay as an assistant professor. He was promoted as an associate professor in 1994 and as a professor in 1998 and in 2005, he became the head of the department of electrical engineering, a post he held till 2008. During this period, he had three sabbaticals abroad; as a visiting professor at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (1996) and at University of Paris XI (2002–03) and as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Technical University of Munich (May–June 2007). He served as director of IIT Bombay from April 2019 to April 2024 and holds the K. N. Bajaj Chair. He has documented his researches by way of several articles; Google Scholar and ResearchGate, online article repositories of scientific articles, have listed many of them. Besides, he has co-authored six books viz. Motion-Free Super-Resolution, Hyperspectral Image Fusion, Blind Image Deconvolution: Methods and Convergence, Depth From Defocus: A Real Aperture Imaging Approach, Video Analysis and Repackaging for Distance Education and Ambulation Analysis in Wearable ECG and edited two more, Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society: An IFIP TC9 (Computers and Society) Handbook and Super-Resolution Imaging.

Chaudhuri sat in the editorial boards of several journals including International Journal of Computer Vision of Springer, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and IET Computer Vision of Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has delivered invited or plenary speeches in several conferences including the Fifth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG) held in December 2015 at Patna and other institutions. He serves as a member of the Council of the Indian National Science Academy, the Publications Committee of International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications (RAHA 2016) and the Advisory Council of the Information Technology Research Academy. As the Dean of International Relations of IIT Bombay, he has been involved in inter-institutional cooperations; spearheading the IITB's efforts to open an off-campus in New York and the establishment of cooperation with International Cooperation Between the Advanced Institute of Manufacturing With High-Tech Innovations (AIM-HI), Taiwan count among them.

Selected Patents Visual Object Tracking With Scale and Orientation Adaptation Image Object Tracking and Segmentation Using Active Contours. Device and Method for Automatically recreating a Content Preserving and Compression Efficient Lecture Video. System for creating a capsule representation of an instructional video. System and method for fusing images.

Awards and honors Chaudhuri received the Shri Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award of the Physical Research Laboratory in 2011, followed by the Prof. S. V. C. Aiya Memorial Award of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, the same year. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2004. The Prof. H.H. Mathur Excellence in Research Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay reached him in 2007 and he received the G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research from the K. K. Birla Foundation in 2010. A year later, he was awarded the 2011 NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award.

Chaudhuri has received three major research fellowships in his career; starting with Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology in 2003, followed by the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship in 2007 and Indian National Academy of Engineering. Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as their fellow in 2005

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