R. Venkatesh Babu

I am a professor and Chair of the Dept. of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), Indian Institute of
Science (IISc), Bangalore. I
received my doctorate degree from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. I held postdoctoral
positions at NTNU, Norway and IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France,
through ERCIM
fellowship. I also worked as a research fellow at
NTU,
Singapore. I spent couple of years working in industry before joining
IISc in August 2010.
My research interests include Computer Vision and Deep Learning. I am a recipient of the SERB Star (2020) and Sathish Dhawan Young Engineer Awards (2019). I am a senior member of IEEE, AAAI, Distinguised Member of ACM and Fellow of INAE. I have been recognized in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List for 2020 to 2025, and recognized as the top AI researcher in India by the CSRankings.org. I have served as a Program Chair of the AIML-Systems 2023 conference, General Co-Chair of CVIP 2024, General Chair of ICVGIP'24 and General Chair of CVIP'25. Check our Vision and AI lab's Publication page or my Google Scholar page for more details.
Professional Activities
Contact:
- Office:
- Room No: 214
- Department of Computational and Data Sciences
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore
- India - 560 012.
Phone: (+91)-80 2293 2900
Fax: (+91)-80 2360 2648 - E-mail:
- venky [at] iisc [dot] ac [dot] in