Shree K. Nayar

Shree K. Nayar (* 1963 ) is an Indian-American computer engineer and professor at Columbia University who conducts research in the fields of computer vision, computer graphics and digital cameras.

Life

Nayar studied electrical engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology in Ranchi , India , where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1984. In 1984 he started working for Taylor Instruments as a development engineer. In 1986 he earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh . He then became a research assistant at The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh . In the summer of 1989 he was a visiting researcher at Hitachi Ltd. in Yokohama , Japan . In 1991 Nayar received his PhD back in Pittsburgh . He was then appointed TC Chang Professor at Columbia University. In 2009 he became dean.

Awards

Nayar won several best paper awards for his scientific publications. Other awards:

2011: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2009: Alumni Achievement Award, Carnegie Mellon University
2008: Member of the National Academy of Engineering
2006: Great Teacher Award, Columbia University
1995: David Marr Prize , International Conference on Computer Vision
1995: Keck Engineering Teaching Excellence Award
1994: NTT Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award
1992: Fellow of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
1991: National Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
1990: David Marr Prize, International Conference on Computer Vision

Fonts

with Tomoo Mitsunga: Radiometric Self Calibration. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Vol. 1, pp. 374-380. IEEE, Fort Collins 1999, ISBN 0-7695-0149-4 ( PDF, 950 kB )

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SURNAME	Nayar, Shree K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indian-American computer engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	1963

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