Ananda Shankar Chowdhury

I am a Professor in the department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (E.T.C.E.) at Jadavpur University (J.U.), India. I served the department as Head for two years (from 03.07.2020 to 02.07.2022). My office room (no. T-5A-2) is located on the 4th floor of Prayukti Bhavan in the main campus of the university. At J.U., I formed the Imaging, Vision and Pattern Recognition (IVPR) group. I am a senior member of IEEE, an IAPR TC-member of Graph based Representations in Pattern Recognition (GbR) and a life member of Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI). I currently serve IEEE Transactions on Image Processing as an Associate Editor and Pattern Recognition Letters as an Area Editor. Earlier, I had served Springer Nature Computer Science, Pattern Recognition Letters, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters in the capacities of Associate Editor and Senior Area Editor. I have held invited academic visits to universities in France, Germany, Norway, Italy, The Netherlands, Singapore and Brazil. Before joining Jadavpur University, I was a post-doctoral fellow in the department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at National Institutes of Health, USA for the period August 2007 to December 2008, where I worked under the aegis of Ronald Summers. Prior to that, I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Georgia, USA in July 2007. My doctoral thesis adviser was Suchendra Bhandarkar. During my doctoral years, by co-authoring papers with Robert Robinson, I had earned an Erdӧs Number of 2 for myself. Earlier, I obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics from Presidency College in 1996, a B.Tech. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics in 1999 and an M.E. from the department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (E.T.C.E.) at Jadavpur University with a specialization in Computer Engineering in 2001.