Gaurav Sharma
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Professor of Computer Science
- Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
- Ph.D., North Carolina State Univ.,
Raleigh,
NC 1996
Laboratory/Center Affiliations:
- Sharma Laboratory Webpages
- Goergen Institute for Data Science
- Center for RNA Biology
Technical Interests:
- Data Analytics, Cyber Physical Systems, Signal and Image Processing, Computer Vision, Media Security, Communications
Professional Biography/History:
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Gaurav Sharma is with the University of Rochester, where he is a
Professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering ,
Department of Computer Science , and Department of
Biostatistics and Computational Biology.
He is also a Distinguished Researcher in Center of Excellence in Data Science (CoE) at the Goergen Institute for Data Science .
From 2008-2010, he served as the Director for the
Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS), a New York state supported center for
promoting joint university-industry research and technology
development, which is housed at the University of Rochester.
From 1996 through 2003, he was with Xerox Research and Technology in
Webster, NY first as a member of research and technology staff and
then as a Principal Scientist and Project Leader.
He received the Ph.D.
in Electrical and Computer Engineering from
North
Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC, and
masters degrees in Applied Mathematics from NCSU and in
Electrical Communication Engineering from the
Indian
Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India. He received his bachelor of engineering degree
in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian
Institute of Technology, Roorkee (formerly, Univ. of Roorkee).
Dr. Sharma is a fellow of the IEEE,
a fellow of SPIE -- the international
society for optics and photonics, and a fellow of
the Society for Imaging Science and
Technology (IS&T). He is also an elected member
of Sigma Xi, the scientific
research society and the Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Mu Epsilon honor
societies. Dr. Sharma is a Member-at-Large on
IEEE
Signal Processing Society Board of Governors. He was a
2020-21 Distiguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society and has previously served as
an SPIE Visiting Lecturer . Dr. Sharma served as the
Editor-in-Chief for
the
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 2018-2020 and as the
Editor-in-Chief for the Journal
of Electronic Imaging from 2011 through 2015. Dr. Sharma is a
member of the Editorial Board of
the Proceedings of
the IEEE and has previously served and as an associate editor for
the Journal of Electronic Imaging, for the
IEEE
Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and for
the IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing. He is the editor of the
"Digital Color Imaging Handbook" published
by CRC press. Dr. Sharma served
as the 2010-2011 chair for
the
Image, Video, and Multi-dimensional Signal Processing Technical
Committee, of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and as the 2007
Chair of the IEEE Rochester
Section. He is also a past member of
the IEEE Spectrum Editorial
Advisory Board,
the
Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee ,
the
Multimedia-Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE
SPS, and of
the
Industry DSP Technology Standing Committee, of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society. He was the Chair and Co-Chair, respectively, for
the 2013 and 2012
IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging (EI) Symposia and Technical Program
Co-Chair for the 2012 and 2016 editions of the IEEE
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). Dr. Sharma is
a member of the IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Societies of
the IEEE. He serves on
the
IEEE Publication Services Product Board (PSPB) and is the current chair of
the
IEEE PSPB Strategic Planning Committee. From 2015 through 2017 he served as the Treasurer for the IEEE PSPB and in 2017 and 2018 he served as the Chair of the IEEE Conference Publications Committee (CPC).
In 2015 and 2016, he served on the
IEEE Signal Processing Society's Conferences Board and its
Executive subcommittee.
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Graduate Students:
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