Professor Dr. Visvanathan Ramesh joined as the W3 professor for Software Engineering with emphasis on Bio-inspired Vision in July. He joins the Bernstein Focus: NeuroTechnology team at the Goethe-University and Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies.

Prior to this, Professor Ramesh was at Siemens Corporate Research where he was a Global Technology Field Leader in the area of Real-time Vision & Industrial Imaging. He and his team have developed real-time vision systems for application in video surveillance and monitoring, augmented reality, computer vision software systems, statistical modeling techniques for computer vision algorithm design, analysis, and performance characterization. He has extensive experience in the design, analysis, implementation, and performance evaluation of real-time vision systems.

His current research focus is on model-driven design and engineering of complex intelligent systems and in interdisciplinary research bridging systems engineering, computational neuroscience, cognitive science psychology, AI, and statistical machine learning.

Dr. Ramesh was the co-recipient of the best paper award for his work on real-time tracking in the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (2000) and he co-received the IEEE Longuet Higgins Award for the same paper Fundamental Contributions to computer vision (2010). He was also awarded the Siemens Inventor of the Year award in 2008 for his and his teams outstanding contributions to Siemens in the area of real-time-vision. He has served as a member of the DARPA Image Understanding environment committee (1991-95) and various IEEE conference committees for computer vision and video surveillance.