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Email:  sabasu@nsf.gov Phone: (703) 292-7843 Fax: (703) 292-9059 Room: 1106 N Organization:  CCF Title:  Program Director

Sankar Basu is a permanent member of NSF scientific staff and is a program Director. He came to NSF from the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center at the beginning of fiscal year 2003. After receiving a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh he served on the faculty of Stevens Institute of Technology, where he taught and conducted funded research (Air-Force, NSF), and for a brief period was with the Naval Underwater Systems Center, CT as a visiting senior scientist. He has visited the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, and the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) for extended periods.

At NSF his primary responsibilities include Design automation for Micro and Nano-systems, which includes VLSI CAD, micro-fluidics, mixed signals systems and nano-computing architectures. In addition, he participates in interdisciplinary NSF programs on Interactions between Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS), the Nano Science and Engineering (NSE) program, and in the past has participated in the Science of Learning Centers (SLC) Program and the Information Technology Research (ITR) program. In this latter capacity, he was also involved in projects related to learning theory and pattern analysis. He serves on the National Science and Technology (NSTC) Committee, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Biometrics.

Dr. Basu's past research interests had been in the analytical aspects circuits, signals and systems. At IBM, he also worked on statistical learning, speech and multimedia data retrieval, and has extensively published on filter synthesis, image processing, nonlinear modeling techniques. An author/coauthor of over one hundred refereed publications including two special volumes on wavelets and filter banks, he was keynote speakers at the First International Workshop on n-D systems (NDS) 1998 in Lagow, Poland as well as at NDS2000 on Czocha Castle, Poland. He holds 9 US Patents.

He was the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS)-Part I: Regular Papers during 2006-2007 and was the EIC for the TCAS-part II: Express Briefs during 2006-2007. He either currently serves or in the past has served in editorial capacities for a number of publications including the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, the Journal of Applied Signal Processing of the European Association of Signal Processing, the Journal of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, and the Journal of VLSI Signal and Image Processing published by the Kluwer Academic Publishers. At present he is also a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Press.

Dr. Basu has organized, chaired sessions, and has been a panelist in many conferences in the areas of nanotechnology, circuits and systems, statistical learning theory. He initiated and was the general chair of the first IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) in 2000, for which he also served as the steering committee chair for several years. He was a co-organizer for the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Statistical Learning and Applications at the Katholieke University, Leuven, Belgium in 2002, and co-edited the book Advances in Learning Theory: Methods, Models, and Applications.

In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the 'theory and application of multidimensional circuits, systems and signal processing'.