Arun Agarwal's profile

Faculty Profile
	Arun Agarwal Professor Ph.D IIT Delhi, India	Contact Address: DCIS,University of Hyderabad, Central University P.O, Hyderabad - 500 046. INDIA. Phone: 91-040-23134116

Recent Publications Academic Distinction Academic Outreach Coordinatorship of seminar/conferences School/Department Board member of several universities/institution	Areas of Interest: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks. Professional Exposure: Visiting Scientist at The Robotics Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA, Research Associate at Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA. Member, Editorial Board (RBCS) International Journal of Pattern Recognition Senior Member, IEEE Chairmen, IEEE Hyderabad Section 2002 Expert Member of AICTE, NBA & School/Department Board member of several Universities 21 years of Experience in Teaching & Research. Published papers in IJNN, PR, IJPRAI, JEI, ICDAR, ACCV etc Supervised 3 doctoral students and more than 84 post graduate thesis Awarded research/consultancy projects by MIT, GEQD, Euroflex etc.

Grid Initiative at University of Hyderabad, an invited article for Anniversary Issue of C-DAC CONNECT, March 2006, pp 7.
Development of software tools for the decipherment of obliterated/erased writings, Report No. DCIS/GEQD/2002/1 submitted to BPRD, Ministry of Home Affairs, 2002
A survey on authentication based on Biometric features, A project report submitted to MIT, 2001
A Knowledge Based Segmentation Algorithm for Enhanced Recognition of Handwritten Courtesy Amounts, Journal of Pattern Recognition, pp 305-316, Vol 32 No. 2, 1999(with Karim Hussein, Amar Gupta and P.S.P Wang).

APGrid PMA Member
Chairman, PRC Committee, SAG, DRDO
Member, Editorial Board (RBCS) International Journal of Pattern Recognition
Associate Editor, Journal of International Association of Engineers
Member, PRSG Committee, DIT, Government of India
Member, PRAGMA Steering Committee
Member, GARUDA project: A National Grid Initiative, CDAC/MCIT
Chaired a Session during 8th PRAGMA Workshop, held in Biopolis, Singapore, May 2-4, 2005
Chaired a Session during 10th PRAGMA Workshop, held in Townsville, Australia, March 26-27, 2006.
Member, Advisory Committee for Computing and Networking, Assam University, Silchar
Elected Vice-Chairman, Educational Activities, IEEE: India Council, 2005
Expert Member of AICTE to recognize new colleges to start engineering courses
DOEACC Empanelled Expert Member

Delivered a lecture on "PRAGMA Grid and Indian Initiative", CDAC-CERN Collaborative Workshop on Grid and High Speed Computing, Pune, February 24, 2006
Delivered a lecture on "Higher Education in IT: Opportunities for Foreign Students", Taj Banjara, Hyderabad, December 7, 2005
Delivered a lecture on "IT Infratstructure for Payment Systems", Department of Computer Sciences, Pondicherry University, November 16, 2005
Delivered two lectures on "Current Trends in Pattern Recognition", Refresher Course sponsored by UGC-ASC, Bangalore University, July 9 2005

Member, Steering Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, January 6-12, 2007
Member, Program Committee, UtilityGrids 2006, New Delhi, January 8-12, 2006
Member, Program Committee, International Conference of Cognition and Recognition, Mysore, December 22-23, 2005
Member, Program Committee, ADCOM, Coimbatore, December 14-17, 2005
Co-Chair, Program Committee, 40th National Annual Convention of CSI, held in Hyderabad, November 9-12, 2005
Session Coordinator, "Education Track", CSI National Convention, November 9-12, 2005, Hyderabad
Chairman, Organizing Committee, GEON Workshop, Hyderabad, October 24-27, 2005
Chairman, PRAGMA 9 Workshop, Hyderabad, October 20-22, 2005