Aggarwal, J. K.

Biography:

J.K. Aggarwal has served on the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin College of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1964. He is currently one of the Cullen Professors of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Computer and Vision Research Center. His research interests include computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition. Professor Aggarwal earned his B.Sc. from University of Bombay, India in 1957, B. Eng.; University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, 1960; M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1961; and Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, in 1964.

A fellow of IEEE (1976) and IAPR (1998), Prof. Aggarwal received the Senior Research Award of the American Society of Engineering Education in 1992. In 1996, he received the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for "pioneering contributions towards establishing fundamentals of structure extraction and computational motion from image sequences". He received the 2004 King-Sun Fu Prize of the International Association for Pattern Recognition with the citation "For poineering contributions towards establishing fundamentals of structure and motion from sequences of images and their applications to robot vision and human motion." He received the 2005 IEEE Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award with the citation " For inspiring graduate students to achieve excellence through mentoring, teaching, and guidance of research in computer vision and signal processing. " He is the author or editor of 7 books and 54 book chapters, author of over 192 journal papers, as well as numerous proceeding papers and technical reports.

He has served as the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1987-1989), Director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multisensor Fusion for Computer Vision, Grenoble, France (1989), Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (1993), and the President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (1992-1994). He is a life fellow of IEEE and Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society.

The primary focus of Prof. Aggarwal's teaching and research has been in signal processing and pattern recognition. In response to the needs of students and the rapid growth of technology, Prof. Aggarwal has developed and taught new course material in such classes as Nonlinear Systems, Linear Systems, Time-Delay Systems, Digital Filtering, Networks, Pattern Recognition, and Computer Vision. Some courses have been offered with varied emphasis during different semesters; for example, Advanced Computer Vision has been taught with emphasis of structure from motion, stereo vision, compression of images, etc. He is author/editor of seven books that have presented cutting edge academic research theories and industrial research practices at a level appropriate for graduate students. In recognition of his teaching accomplishments, Prof. Aggarwal has received numerous College of Engineering Meritorious Faculty Awards, the 1986 Billy and Claude Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award, and was named Outstanding Graduate Teacher in 1992. Professor Aggarwal has graduated 39 doctoral and 53 masters students and served on numerous other graduate student committees. Many of his students have received best paper awards and have gone on to successful in careers in industry, academia and national research agencies.

Research Interests:

• Image processing
• Pattern recognition
• Computer vision

Click here to read about Dr. Aggarwal in the Austin American-Statesman, 3/30/98