Raj Acharya:Biography

 

Name: Raj Acharya             

Title: Professor & Head

Organization: The Penn State University

Email: Acharya@cse.psu.edu

Address: CSE, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802-6822

Phone Number: (814) 865 9505

 

Raj Acharya obtained his Ph.D. from the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine/University of Minnesota in 1984. Since then, he has worked as a research scientist at the Mayo Clinic and at GE (Thomson)-CGR in Paris, France. He has also been a Faculty Fellow at the Night Vision Laboratory in Fort Belvoir in Washington, D.C. and has been a NASA-ASEE Faculty Fellow at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. He is currently the Head of Computer Science and Engineering Department at Penn State. During his tenure, the CSE department has been ranked amongst the top 10 CS departments in the country.

His main research thrusts are in the general area of bioinformatics and biocomputing. He is the architect of the Pennsylvania Cancer Bioinformatics Datawarehouse project. He works on using information fusion techniques for genomics and proteomics. He is also developing fractal models for the DNA replication and transcription sites. He is associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He is also the co-chair of the IAPR Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition for Bioinformatics. His research work has been featured among others in Businessweek, Mathematics Calendar, The Scientist, Diagnostic Imaging, Biomedical Engineering Newsletter, and Drug Design.