Acharya to Head Computer Science and Engineering at UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Raj Acharya, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been named chair of the department.

A UB faculty member since 1987, Acharya also serves as director of the Networked Multimedia and Visualization Laboratory at UB. The laboratory, which is supported by numerous research grants, including ones from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Air Force and the National Institutes of Health, aims to provide solutions to challenges in the areas of multimedia networks, multimedia information retrieval, image processing and visualization.

Acharya also is chair of the special sessions for the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers International's Conference on Multimedia and Expo, which will be held in July and August of 2000. In addition, he is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics.

His research interests include multimedia networks, multimedia information retrieval, fractals, image processing and visualization.

He received a doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota/Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and has worked as a researcher at the Mayo Clinic.

Acharya resides in East Amherst.