Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Bhanu is also a member of ACM, AAAI, and BMES. Bhanu received the university, industry, and conference/journal paper awards for research excellence, outstanding contributions, team efforts, and best papers. He received an award from the President of Honeywell on patented technology on inertial navigation sensor integrated video-based navigation. He received the Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award of UC Riverside at the commencement held in June 2011. He received the Bourns College of Engineering Research Excellence Award in 2003 and Pioneering award in 2015. He received the UCR Faculty Research Lecturer Award, the UCR Senate's highest Award for Faculty Research in June 2019. It is the first such award for Bourns College of Engineering in 30 years. He received Distinguished Alumnus Award of BITS (Birla Institute of Technology and Science), Pilani in 2019. He has over 18 U.S. and International patents issued and several pending. He has over 550 refereed publications including over 155 journal papers. He was the General Chair for the first IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV (now renamed as IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision) (Palm Springs, CA, 1992, 2000, 2005 (Program Chair), 2015), Chair for the DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, IUW (Monterey, CA, 1994), General Chair for the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR (San Francisco, CA, 1996), General Chair for IEEE Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance, AVSS (Santa Fe, 2008), General Chair for ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras ICDSC (Palm Springs in 2014), and General Chair for IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (Xian, China, 2018). Authored Books Dr. Bhanu is the author of the following books: Human Recognition at a Distance in Video Human Ear Recognition by Computer Synthesis of Pattern Recognition Systems Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition Genetic Learning for Adaptive Image Segmentation Qualitative Motion Understanding Computational Learning for Adaptive Computer Vision Video Bioinformatics: From Live Imaging to Knowledge (Edited) Multibiometrics for Human Identification (Edited) Distributed Video Sensor Networks (Edited) Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum (Edited) Deep Learning for Biometrics (Edited) References 1951 births American electrical engineers Living people University of California, Riverside faculty Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and