Chandra Sekhar

Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Professor

Biography

Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Bachelor of Engineering degree with Prof. K. K. Nair Gold Medal and Best Thesis Award from Osmania University in 1999 and the Ph.D. from IISc in 2005 with an IBM India Research Lab Fellowship.

From 2005–2006, he was a consultant at ESQUBE Communication Solutions. From 2006–2009, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Biomedical Imaging Group, EPFL, Switzerland, focusing on tomography, splines, and sparse signal processing.

Since 2009, he has been on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Department, IISc, where he is now Professor and leads the R&D activities of Spectrum Lab. His research interests include signal processing, machine learning, Generative AI, computational imaging, and AI for Healthcare.
Awards
  • Prof. Priti Shankar Teaching Award, IISc
  • Digital Health Prize, NBEC 2018
  • Grand Challenges Exploration Award, Gates Foundation + BIRAC, 2020
  • Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, 2019–2025
  • Outstanding Editorial Board Member, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 2022
Professional Activities
  • Project Assessment Committee (PAC) of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science and Engineering (EECE) · Current
  • Interlocutor for "Voice-to-voice translation" IIT Alumni Centre, Bangalore · June 25, 2023
  • Area Chair, Computational Imaging Track IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) · 2021, 2022, 2023
  • Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · March 2018-2022
  • Senior Area Editor IEEE Signal Processing Letters · May 2017-2021
  • Associate Editor IEEE Signal Processing Letters · 2013-2017
  • Chair IEEE Signal Processing Society Bangalore Chapter · Current
  • Associate Editor Society for Photonics and Industrial Electronics (SPIE) Journal of Electronic Imaging · 2014-2018
  • Tutorials Co-Chair IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) · 2020
  • General Chair International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) · 2020 · Bangalore
  • Organizing Committee member IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) · 2025 · Hyderabad
  • Publicity Chair Interspeech · 2018
  • Chair, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) - Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM) Indian Institute of Science zone · 2022-2023
  • Vice-Chair, GATE-JAM IISc zone · 2020-2021, 2021-2022
  • Senior Area Editor IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · Current
  • Member, Awards Committee IEEE Computational Imaging Technical Committee · Current
  • Elected Member IEEE Technical Committee on Computational Imaging · Since 2020
  • Senior Member IEEE · Since October 2012
  • UNAM, Mexico Dec 2017 · Host: Prof. Chavez Garcia, Prof. Cardenas-Soto
  • JKU Linz, Austria June–July 2016 · Host: Dr. Bettina Heise, Prof. Kurt Hingerl
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong Aug 2014 · Host: Prof. Thierry Blu
  • University of Vienna, Austria May 2014 · Host: Prof. Torsten Moeller
  • EPFL (Biomedical Optics Lab) June–July 2013 · Host: Prof. Theo Lasser
  • CUHK, Hong Kong May–June 2012 · Host: Prof. Thierry Blu
  • EPFL (Biomedical Imaging Group) May–July 2011 · Host: Prof. Michael Unser