Sethuraman Panchanathan

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Sethuraman Panchanathan
Panchanathan in 2020
15th Director of the National Science Foundation
Incumbent
Assumed office June 23, 2020
President	Donald Trump Joe Biden
Preceded by	Kelvin Droegemeier (acting) France A. Córdova
Personal details
Born	Chennai, India
Spouse	Soumya Panchanathan
Education	University of Madras (BS) Indian Institute of Science (BEng) Indian Institute of Technology (MTech) University of Ottawa (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering Computer engineering Informatics
Institutions	University of Ottawa Arizona State University
Thesis	Algorithms and architectures for image coding using vector quantization (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Morris Goldberg

Sethuraman Panchanathan is an Indian–American computer scientist and academic administrator, and, since June 2020, the 15th Director of National Science Foundation.^[1]

He previously served at Arizona State University as executive vice president of knowledge enterprise development and chief research and innovation officer. He was also director of the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), Foundation Chair of Computing and Informatics at the university, and a professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.^[2]