Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula
Professor
Biography
Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Bachelor of Engineering degree with Prof. K. K. Nair Gold Medal and Best Thesis Award from Osmania University in 1999 and the Ph.D. from IISc in 2005 with an IBM India Research Lab Fellowship.
From 2005–2006, he was a consultant at ESQUBE Communication Solutions. From 2006–2009, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Biomedical Imaging Group, EPFL, Switzerland, focusing on tomography, splines, and sparse signal processing.
Since 2009, he has been a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, IISc, leading the Spectrum Lab. His research interests include speech/image processing, compressed sensing, inverse problems, and machine learning.
Academic and Editorial Roles
- Chair, IEEE Signal Processing Society Bangalore Chapter (2017–2021)
- Senior Area Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2017–2021)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2018–2022)
- Area Chair, ICASSP 2020; TC Member, IEEE Computational Imaging (2020–2023)
Awards
- Prof. Priti Shankar Teaching Award, IISc
- Digital Health Prize, NBEC 2018
- Grand Challenges Exploration Award, Gates Foundation + BIRAC, 2020
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (4x), 2019–2022
- Outstanding Editorial Board Member, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 2022
Visiting Positions
- UNAM, Mexico – Dec 2017
Hosts: Prof. Chavez Garcia, Prof. Cardenas-Soto - JKU Linz, Austria – June–July 2016
Hosts: Dr. Bettina Heise, Prof. Kurt Hingerl - Chinese University of Hong Kong – Aug 2014
Host: Prof. Thierry Blu - University of Vienna, Austria – May 2014
Host: Prof. Torsten Moeller - EPFL (Biomedical Optics Lab) – June–July 2013
Host: Prof. Theo Lasser - CUHK, Hong Kong – May–June 2012
Host: Prof. Thierry Blu - EPFL (Biomedical Imaging Group) – May–July 2011
Host: Prof. Michael Unser