Sethuraman Panchanathan

Sethuraman Panchanathan (born June 24, 1961) is Executive Vice President, ASU Knowledge Enterprise and Chief Research and Innovation Officer at Arizona State University (ASU). He is also Director of the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), Foundation Chair of Computing and Informatics at ASU and Professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. On June 13, 2014 he was nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the National Science Board of National Science Foundation.

He attended the Vivekananda College (University of Madras), graduating in 1981 with a B.Sc. in Physics. Subsequently, in 1984, he earned a B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. In 1986, he completed his M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He later enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Ottawa, Canada. and received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1989.

Panchanathan is married to Sarada “Soumya” Panchanathan, who is a clinical pediatrician at the Maricopa County Hospital, and is also a part-time faculty, teaching informatics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix Campus, and biomedical informatics at ASU. Together they have two children, Amritha and Roshan. Panchanathan is a Hindu and a vegetarian.

Panchanathan moved to Arizona in 1997 as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at ASU. In 2001, he was promoted to full professor and founded the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), which is focused on designing technologies and devices for assisting individuals with disabilities. He also founded and led the School of Computing and Informatics (2006-2009) and the Department of Biomedical Informatics (2005-2007). Panchanathan was appointed as the university Chief Research Officer in 2009, where he was responsible for conceptualizing and building large interdisciplinary initiatives at ASU. In 2011, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of ASU’s Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development, for the advancement of research, entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development activities. In 2016, Panchanathan was promoted to Executive Vice President, ASU Knowledge Enterprise and Chief Research and Innovation Officer at ASU. In this role, Dr. Panchanathan leads the advancement of research, innovation, entrepreneurship, economic development, strategic partnerships, and global development. Under his leadership, ASU’s research has grown exponentially with annual research expenditures quadrupling to half a billion dollars over the past 15 years. ASU is the fastest growing research university in the U.S and is one of the top 10 universities without a medical school in the U.S. ASU was named the Most Innovative University in the U.S. in 2015 and 2016, ahead of Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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