Jan 30 (Fri) @ 1:30pm: Koenig Endowed Chair Ceremony – B.S. Manjunath

Location: Engineering Science Building, Room 1001 (ESB 1001)
Refreshments at 1:30 PM – Program begins at 2:00 PM

This special seminar serves as a celebratory occasion to formally recognize the appointment of Professor B.S. Manjunath as the inaugural holder of the Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair in Signals and Systems. Elevated appetizers and refreshments will be served at 1:30 PM, followed by the ceremony at 2:00 PM, with Professor Manjunath as the principal presenter of his talk “Scalable Visual Intelligence: A Research Journey from Signals to Scientific Discovery.” 

The Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair in Signals and Systems is a UC Santa Barbara endowment established by ECE alumnus Frank Koenig. The Chair’s primary purpose is to advance the research excellence of an exceptional senior faculty member in electrical or computer engineering.

Bio

Professor B.S. Manjunath, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was appointed the Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair in Signals and Systems in recognition of his outstanding contributions to image processing, transformative interdisciplinary research, and dedication to mentoring the next generation of scientific leaders. His research advances have impacted diverse fields including digital libraries, remote sensing, marine sciences, and biology, with foundational contributions to image retrieval, feature extraction, segmentation, and scalable image informatics. He is the creator of BisQue, a reproducible, web-based scientific image analytics platform that has redefined how researchers visualize, analyze, and collaborate on complex multimodal imaging data and is deployed as a core service of the NSF CyVerse Cyberinfrastructure. Professor Manjunath has authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications, holds 29 U.S. patents, and has received more than 45,000 citations. A Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, National Academy of Inventors, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers, his achievements in research, mentorship, and innovation have left an indelible mark on the field and beyond.

Hosted by: The ECE Department & the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering

Submitted by: Alexa Pazell <apazell@ece.ucsb.edu>