Dr. Vijayan Asari is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. He is the Director of the Computational Intelligence and Machine Vision Laboratory (ODU Vision Lab) at ODU. Dr. Asari received the Bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering from the University of Kerala (College of Engineering, Trivandrum), India, in 1978, the M. Tech and Ph. D degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1984 and 1994 respectively.

Dr. Asari had been working as an Assistant Professor in electronics and communications at TKM College of Engineering, University of Kerala, India. In 1996, he joined the National University of Singapore as a Research Fellow and led the research team for the development of a vision-guided microrobotic endoscopy system. He joined the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 1998 and led the computer vision and image processing related research activities in the Center for High Performance Embedded Systems at NTU.

Dr. Asari joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at ODU as a Visiting Associate Professor in August 2000 and accepted a tenure track position in 2001. Dr. Asari was tenured in 2006 and promoted to Full Professor in May 2007. He is the Director of the VLSI Systems Laboratory in the ECE department at ODU. He is also the Director of the Homeland Security Research Group at ODU.

Dr. Asari received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in April 2002 and the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology in April 2004. He also received the Outstanding Researcher Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Excellence in Research Award from the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, both in April 2006. Dr. Asari has been a Senior Member of the IEEE since 2001, and is a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), IEEE CIS Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Research interests: Signal processing, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, neural networks, and high performance and low power digital architectures for application specific integrated circuits.

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
(757) 683-3752