Chandra Sekhar

Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Professor

css@iisc.ac.in

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
Sparsity driven super-resolution ultrasound imaging

Axis Bank Medical Image Computing Workshop, IISc

February 24-25, 2023

Workshop
Neuromorphic Sampling

Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computing, 2021

October 31- November 3, 2021

Conference Virtual
Generalized weighted lp minimization for accurate interferometric phase estimation

DMV-OMG Annual Conference (Clifford Analysis and Phase Retrieval in Imaging)

September 27 - October 1, 2021

Conference Virtual
Healthcare in the age of AI

IEEE SPS Winter School on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

November 12-14, 2019

Keynote
Deep learning for sparse coding

Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP) 2019

January 27-29, 2019

Winter School
Unrolled iterative algorithms for sparse coding

International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), IISc

July 16-19, 2018

Special Session Special session on Deep Learning
There's more to a spectrogram than meets the eye

International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), IISc

July 16-19, 2018

Special Session Special session on Speech Processing
The BIG bang. Twenty Years of Biomedical Imaging and Splines (TYBIS)

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

March 23, 2018

Invited Talk
ESOLA: Epoch-synchronous overlap-add for speech applications

Winter School in Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

January 19-22, 2018

Winter School
Sub-Nyquist sampling

Osmania University College of Engineering Centenary Conference, Hyderabad

December 29-30, 2017

Tutorial

Showing recent 10 of 18 talks delivered

An Introduction to Neuromorphic Computing with Intel Loihi

Ashish Rao Mangalore

Doctoral resident at Intel Labs, Munich, Germany

February 20, 2023

Proper Definition of Dirichlet Conditions and Convergence of Fourier Representations

Prof. Anubha Gupta

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi

January 11, 2023

Advances in imaging and segmentation of thalamic nuclei with applications

Prof. Manoj Saranathan

Professor of Radiology at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts

January 2, 2023

Digital Acquisition via Modulo Folding: Revisiting the Legacy of Shannon-Nyquist, Prony, Schoenberg, Pisarenko and Radon

Dr. Ayush Bhandari

Imperial College, London

June 1, 2022

From compressed sensing to deep learning: tasks, structures, and models

Prof. Yonina Eldar

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

December 18, 2019

Probing New Frontiers In Computational Photography and Displays

Kshitij Marwah

Camera Culture MIT Media Lab

August 31, 2012

There is more to a picture than meets the eye -- Recent advances in image forensics

N. Memon

IEEE Distinguished Lecture

August 21, 2012

The talk was jointly organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore chapter, IEEE Bangalore section, and the Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc.
Regularized auto-associative neural networks for speaker recognition

Sri Sivaram Garimella

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

August 3, 2012

Co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore chapter.
Compressed sensing and related topics: Theory and applications

Angshul Majumdar

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada

April 27, 2012

Co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore chapter.
Analysis and processing of continuous data streams in industrial applications

Lakshminarayan Choudur

Principal Research Scientist from the Hewlett Packard Laboratories, California, USA

April 10, 2012

Co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore chapter.

Showing recent 10 of 17 talks organized

Current Roles
Project Assessment Committee (PAC) of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)

Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science and Engineering (EECE)

Government Service Current
Interlocutor for "Voice-to-voice translation"

IIT Alumni Centre, Bangalore

Event June 25, 2023

Talk delivered by Prof. S. R. M. Prasanna, IIT Dharwad

Area Chair, Computational Imaging Track

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Conference 2021, 2022, 2023
Academic Service
Chair, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) - Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM)

Indian Institute of Science zone

Academic Administration 2022-2023

GATE and JAM are nation-wide entrance exams

Vice-Chair, GATE-JAM

IISc zone

Academic Administration 2020-2021, 2021-2022
Senior Area Editor

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Editorial Current
Member, Awards Committee

IEEE Computational Imaging Technical Committee

Committee Current
Elected Member

IEEE Technical Committee on Computational Imaging

Technical Committee Since 2020
Senior Member

IEEE

Membership Since October 2012
Conference Organization
Tutorials Co-Chair

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) (2020)

Conference Leadership
General Chair

International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) (2020)

Bangalore

Conference Leadership
Organizing Committee member

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (2025)

Hyderabad

Conference Leadership

ICASSP will be held in India for the first time in 2025 and I am a part of the team that bid for hosting ICASSP in India

Publicity Chair

Interspeech (2018)

Conference Leadership

Interspeech is a premier international conference in the area of speech processing and is held under the auspices of International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). I was a part of the team that bid for bringing Interspeech to India. Interspeech was held in India for the first time ever in 2018

Editorial Service
Associate Editor

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Editorial March 2018-2022
Senior Area Editor

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Editorial May 2017-2021
Associate Editor

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Editorial 2013-2017

Two terms

Chair

IEEE Signal Processing Society Bangalore Chapter

Society Leadership Current

Vice-Chair (2014-2018) and Treasurer (2010-2013)

Associate Editor

Society for Photonics and Industrial Electronics (SPIE) Journal of Electronic Imaging

Editorial 2014-2018
UNAM, Mexico

Dec 2017

Hosts: Prof. Chavez Garcia, Prof. Cardenas-Soto

JKU Linz, Austria

June–July 2016

Hosts: 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