Amitabh Varshney

Biography

Amitabh Varshney is Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park. Varshney is currently exploring applications of virtual and augmented reality in several applications, including education, healthcare, and telemedicine. His research focus is on exploring the applications of immersive visualization in engineering, science, and medicine. He has worked on several research areas including visual saliency, summarization of large visual datasets, and visual computing for big data. He has served in various roles in the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee, including as its Chair, 2008–2012. He received the IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2004. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of the IEEE Visualization Academy.

Learn more about Amitabh Varshney and his work at https://www.cs.umd.edu/~varshney/.