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Hari Sundaram

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Assistant Professor
Arts, Media and Engineering Program

Hari Sundaram is currently an assistant professor, at Arizona State University. This is a joint appointment with the department of Computer Science and the Arts, Media and Engineering program. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in 2002. He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from SUNY Stony Brook in1995 and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1993.

His research group works on developing computational models and systems for situated communication. There are two complementary (but coupled) directions - (a) designing intelligent multimedia environments that exist as part of our physical world (e.g. an intelligent room) (b) developing new algorithms and systems to understand the media artifacts resulting from human activity (e.g. emails, photos / video). Specific projects include context models for action, resource adaptation, archival architectures, communication patterns in media sharing social networks, collaborative annotation, as well analysis of online communities.

Prof. Sundaram's research has won several awards - the best student paper award at JCDL 2007, the best ACM Multimedia demo award in 2006, the best student paper award at ACM conference on Multimedia 2002, and the 2002 Eliahu I. Jury Award for best Ph.D. dissertation. He has also received a best paper award on video retrieval from IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, for the year 1998.

He is an active participant in the Multimedia community - he is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), as well as the IEEE Signal Processing magazine. He has co-organized workshops at ACM Multimedia on experiential telepresence (ETP 2003, ETP 2004), archival of personal experiences (CARPE 2004, CARPE 2005) and a conference of image and video retrieval (CIVR 2006).