Dr. Bhanu is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Cooperative Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Bhanu is also the Director of the Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VISLab) and the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Prior to joining UCR, Dr. Bhanu was a Senior Honeywell Fellow at Honeywell Inc. Dr. Bhanu has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, and has worked with Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation, INRIA-France and IBM San Jose Research Laboratory. Dr. Bhanu has been the principal investigator of various programs from DARPA, NASA, NSF, AFOSR, ARO and other agencies and industries in the areas of object recognition, learning and vision, image understanding, image video databases and machine vision applications. Dr. Bhanu has been the guest editor/associate editor of many journals including IEEE Transactions PAMI, IEEE Transactions IP, IEEE Transactions R & A and IEEE transactions SMC, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Analysis and Applications, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision and the International Journal of Machine Vision and Applications.
Dr. Bhanu is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Dr. Bhanu was the General Chair for the first IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (Palm Springs, CA, 1992), Chair for the DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, (Monterey, CA, 1994), and General Chair for the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (San Francisco, CA, 1996). Dr. Bhanu is a member of ACM and AAAI.
Dr. Bhanu received the S.M. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California and the M.B.A. degree from the University of California, Irvine.
Dr. Bhanu's current research interests are Computer Vision, Machine Learning for Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Graphics and Visualization, Robotics and Human-Computer Interactions.