Biography

Dr. A.N. Rajagopalan received the B.E. and the M. Tech. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Nagpur University, Nagpur, and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. During the summer of 1998, he was a visiting scientist at the Image Communication Lab, University of Erlangen, Germany. He was with the Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland from 1998 till 2000 as a Research Faculty before joining the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras where he currently serves as Sterlite Technologies Chair Professor. His research interests include deep learning, image restoration for deblurring, super-resolution, inpainting and dehazing, 3D recovery and novel view synthesis, multimodal learning, underwater imaging, computer vision for sports, and image forensics.

He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers India (by invitation). He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) from 2007 to 2011, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) from 2012 to 2016, and as Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 2016-2019 and 2021-2024. He served as Area Chair for ICPR24, CVPR22, ACCV22, CVPR 2012 and ICPR 2012, Program Co-chair for ICVGIP 2010, and General Chair for NCVPRIPG 2017 and 2019. He is a recipient of the DAE-SRC Outstanding Investigator award in 2012, the VASVIK award in 2013, the Mid-Career Research & Development award from IIT Madras in 2014, Google India AI/ML Research award for faculty in 2018, and Qualcomm Faculty award in 2022.

He is co-author of the book "Depth from defocus: A real aperture imaging approach", published by Springer-Verlag, New York in March 1999. He co-edited along with Prof. Rama Chellappa of University of Maryland, the book "Motion deblurring: Algorithms and systems" published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.

For details about his research activities, visit Image Processing and Computer Vision (IPCV) lab website.