Vijayan K. Asari

Dr. Vijayan K. Asari is the Ohio Research Scholars Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance and Professor at the University of Dayton's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He serves as Director of the Vision Lab: Center of Excellence for Computational Intelligence and Machine Vision. With over 700 publications including 142 peer-reviewed journal papers, his research spans image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, and high-performance embedded systems.

His research focuses on:

• Wide area surveillance visibility enhancement
• Object detection and tracking in motion imagery
• 3D scene reconstruction
• Human identification through biometrics
• Brain-machine interface systems

Publications demonstrate strong emphasis on neural network applications for environmental monitoring, 3D vision systems, and advanced pattern recognition techniques. Recent work focuses particularly on Arctic climate applications using deep learning.

Awards include:

• Vision Award for Excellence (2017)
• Fulbright Specialist (2017)
• Sigma Xi Noland Award (2016)
• Outstanding Engineers and Scientists Award (2015)

As founding director of computational intelligence laboratories at both Dayton and Old Dominion University, Dr. Asari leads research sponsored by AFRL, ONR, NSF and other agencies. He has supervised 32 PhD dissertations and 48 MS theses.