ECE Seminar Series – Nov 15 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "The Army Research Laboratory: Some Current Interests and Opportunities," Dr. Raghuveer Rao, Chief, Intelligent Perception Branch, DEVCOM ARL

Come at 1:30p for Cookies, Coffee and Conversation!
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE at the ECE SEMINAR SERIES

Abstract

The DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the primary executor of basic and applied research for the Army. In addition to its intramural research efforts spanning multiple technical competencies, ARL welcomes collaboration with external partners to further its mission of operationalizing science. The talk will provide an overview of ARL followed by a description of select opportunities and current research efforts.

Bio

Dr. Raghuveer Rao is the Chief of the Intelligent Perception Branch at the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, Maryland,  where he oversees R&D in multimodal computer vision and applications, mainly to autonomous systems and scene understanding.  Prior to joining ARL, Dr. Rao was a professor of electrical engineering and imaging science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has held visiting appointments with the Indian Institute of Science, the US Air Force Research Laboratory,  the US Naval Surface Warfare Center, and Princeton University. He has made multiple research contributions to signal & image processing, communication, and computer vision, and serves as an ABET program evaluator for electrical engineering. Dr. Rao is a life fellow of IEEE and an elected fellow of SPIE.

Hosted by: Distinguished Lecture at the ECE Seminar Series

Submitted by: B.S. Manjunath <manj@ucsb.edu>