Biography

 Raghu G. Raj received his B.S. in Computer Science and in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St.Louis in 1998 during which period he also worked for two semesters as a co-op engineer in MagneTek Inc., St. Louis. He received the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 during which period he was a Graduate Research Assistant in the Advanced Sonar Division of the Applied Research Laboratories (ARL) in UT-Austin. From 2000-2004 he was with Motorola, Inc., Austin, TX, working on signal processing applications for communication systems. Thereafter he pursued the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering full-time at UT Austin which he completed in 2007. He is currently working as an Electronics Engineer in the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. His research interests include visual search, automatic target recognition, signal/image processing, computational vision, multi-dimensional stochastic processes, pattern recognition, data mining, and data compression.