Applied Computer Vision and Image Processing

Dr. Mrs. Archana Rajurkar is working as a Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MGMs College of Engineering, Nanded, Maharashtra, India. She had received the research grants worth Rs. 32 Lakh from BARC, Mumbai, in the area of image processing. She has authored and coauthored over 70+ research publications in peer-reviewed reputed journals and conference proceedings. She is having an experience of 28+ years in the academics at various positions. She has served as the program committee member of various international conferences and reviewer for various international journals. Her research interests include content-based image processing, multimedia technology and applications, and biomedical image analysis. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, in 2003. Dr. Venkat is Chairperson and Professor in the Computer Science Department at East Carolina University. Prior to this, he was Founding Chair and Professor in the Weisberg Division of Computer Science at Marshall University and also worked as a Vice President for Wall Street companies in New York city for over six years including Merrill Lynch (now Bank of America Merrill Lynch) and Financial Technologies International (now GoldenSource). His previous academic tenure also includes work at the University of Michigan, University of Missouri, and Ohio University. His current research interests are in data management, verification and validation of SQL queries, cognitive computing, high-performance computing, information retrieval, computational analysis of natural language, and personalized learning. His research has been funded by NSF, NASA, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Navy, U.S. Army Research Office, Marshall University Foundation, and West Virginia Division of Science and Research. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Dr. Venkat received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Center for AdvancedComputer Studies (CACS), at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.