PROF. ARUN AGARWAL, B.TECH PH.D

Prof. Arun Agarwal completed his B.Tech (Electrical Engineering, 1979) and PhD (Computer Science, 1989) both from IIT Delhi. He started his career as a Senior Research Assistant in IIT Delhi and then joined University of Hyderabad in 1984, where at present he is a Senior Professor in the School of Computer and Information Sciences.

Professor Agarwal was a Visiting Scientist at The Robotics Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA and Research Associate at Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He has visited many other Universities and Institutes like: Monash and Melbourne University in Australia; National Center for High Performance Computing, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; San Diego Supercomputing Centre USA; Mahasarakham University and NECTEC, Thailand; KISTI, South Korea; etc.

He is a Fellow of Telangana Akademi of Sciences, Fellow of IETE, Senior Member of IEEE, USA.

He was Chairman of IEEE Hyderabad Section for the years 2001 and 2002. He also received the IEEE Region 10 Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2009 in recognition of his dedications and contributions.

He was awarded Outstanding Reviewer Status for Journal of Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, November 2015. He was felicitated by Indian Society for Rough Sets and in association with Manjrasoft and C V R College of Engineering, in recognition of Academic Excellence and promotion of Rough Set Activities 2017.

He has served on the technical program committee of numerous conferences in the area of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. He was also on the Steering Committee of PRAGMA and Associated International Committees from 2004-2015. He was a member of GARUDA project, a Indian national initiative on Grid Computing and also a member of DST-LHC Task Force. Currently, he is a Steering Committee member of series of International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA) and Multi-Disciplinary International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MIWAI).

His research interests are in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Neural Networks, Grid and Cloud Computing.

He has supervised 17 PhD theses and guided more than 125 post-graduate projects/dissertations and has published more than 130 papers. He has several projects and consultancy in hand with several industry/research laboratories.