Vijayan Asari

• Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton

Vijayan K. Asari is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Ohio Research Scholars Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance with the University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA. He is also the Director of the Center of Excellence for Computational Intelligence and Machine Vision (Vision Lab).

Dr. Asari received the BS degree in electronics and communication engineering from the University of Kerala (College of Engineering, Trivandrum), and the M. Tech and Ph. D degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.

Dr. Asari began teaching as an assistant professor in electronics and communications at TKM College of Engineering, University of Kerala, India. In 1996, he joined the National University of Singapore as a Research Fellow and led a team for the development of a vision-guided microrobotic endoscopy system. In 1998, he joined the School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and led the computer vision and image processing research activities in the Center for High Performance Embedded Systems at NTU. In August 2000, Dr. Asari joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, Virginia, as an associate professor. He was tenured in 2006 and promoted to full professor in May 2007. At ODU, he was also the founding director of the Computational Intelligence and Machine Vision Laboratory. Dr. Asari joined the University of Dayton in February 2010.

Dr. Asari has supervised (mentored) 35 PhD dissertations and 54 MS theses in electrical and computer engineering. Currently several Masters and Doctoral level graduate students are working with him.

Dr. Asari holds five U.S. patents and has published more than 800 research articles, including 149 peer-reviewed journal papers and 7 edited books co-authoring with his students, colleagues and collaborators in the areas of image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, deep learning, and artificial neural networks.

Professor Asari is a recipient of several teaching, research, advising, and technical leadership awards, including the Outstanding Engineers and Scientists Award for Technical Leadership from The Affiliate Societies Council of Dayton in April 2015, the Sigma Xi George B. Noland Award for Outstanding Research in April 2016, and University of Dayton School of Engineering Vision Award for Excellence in August 2017. Dr. Asari was selected as a Fulbright Specialist by the US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning in 2017. He was also selected as European Union's Erasmus+ Faculty Fellow in 2018. He is an elected Fellow of SPIE and a Senior Member of IEEE.

• –present Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton

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