 (with distinction) in Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.Prior to joining UCR in 1991, Dr. Bhanu was Senior Fellow at Honeywell, Inc., Engineering Specialist at Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation, Research Fellow at INRIA - France and Academic Associate at IBM San Jose Research Laboratory.His work in the industry dealt with computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning with applications to target/object recognition, autonomous navigation with commercial, defense, space and intelligence applications.