Vijayan AsariDr. Vijayan K. Asari is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ohio Research Scholars Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA. He is the director of the Center of Excellence for Computatinal Intelligence and Machine Vision (Vision Lab) at UD. Dr. Asari received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1994. Prior to joining UD in February 2010, Dr. Asari worked as Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia for 10 years. Dr. Asari holds five patents and has published more than 700 research papers including 140 peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, neural networks and high performance embedded systems. Dr. Asari has supervised 32 PhD dissertations and 50 MS theses in electrical and computer engineering. Currently several Masters and Doctoral level graduate students are working with him. Dr. Asari received several awards for teaching, research, advising and technical leadership including the University of Dayton, School of Engineering Vision Award for Excellence in August 2017, the Sigma Xi George B. Noland Award for Outstanding Research in April 2016, and the Outstanding Engineers and Scientists Award for Technical Leadership from the Affiliate Societies Council of Dayton in April 2015. He is an elected Fellow of SPIE and a Senior Member of IEEE, and is a co-organizer of several SPIE and IEEE conferences and workshops. Read More Read Less