A. Professor N. Rajagopalan is the first computer scientist in South Asia to be honored as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation in Germany, and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Electronics and Communications Engineers. As the Sterlite Technologies Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, he leads a laboratory known as the "Asian Computer Vision Innovation Engine". His research and development of the "Multi Scale Spatiotemporal Feature Fusion Algorithm" (MS-TFF) has completely revolutionized video object tracking technology, achieving large-scale industrial applications in fields such as smart city security and autonomous navigation of drones.
Professor Rajagopalan's academic authority is further reflected in his position as the head of the top international journal - from 2007 to 2011, he served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), from 2012 to 2016, he was transferred to the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), and in 2016, he was promoted to Senior Field Editor of TIP, becoming the first Indian scholar to reach the decision-making level of an IEEE top journal. The OpenDyna dataset, which he led the construction of, has been adopted by over 200 laboratories worldwide, setting a new benchmark for the fairness evaluation of video understanding models.