Gaurav Sharma

Gaurav Sharma is with the University of Rochester, where he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology. He is also the Associate Director for the Center for Electronic Imaging Systems (CEISs), a New York state supported center for promoting joint university-industry research and technology development, which is housed at the University of Rochester. From 1996 to 2003, he was with Xerox Research and Technology in Webster, NY first as a member of research and technology staff and then as a Principal Scientist and Project Leader. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, and M.S. degrees in applied mathematics from NCSU and in electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He received his B.S. degree of engineering in electronics and communication engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. His research interests include multimedia and print security, color science and imaging, and genomic signal processing. He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, for the Journal of Electronic Imaging and for the open-access Research Letters in Signal Processing. He is the editor of the Digital Color Imaging Handbook published by CRC press in 2003. He was the 2007 Chair of the Rochester Section of the IEEE and the 2003 Chair of the Rochester Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Dr. Sharma is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Pi Mu Epsilon.

Biography Updated on 18 February 2008