
A professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and a University Faculty Scholar. A fellow of the IEEE for contributions to energy efficiency of computer systems, he is a distinguished visitor of the IEEE Computer Society and an ACM distinguished scientist and speaker. He directs the College of Engineering Honors Program and was the inaugural director of the John Martinson Engineering Entrepreneurial Center from 2020 to 2022.
His group studies efficient computer vision, embedded systems, and the cloud and mobile infrastructure that makes them practical at scale. He co-founded the IEEE Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge with Alexander C. Berg in 2015.
An international benchmark for efficient computer vision, started in 2015 with Alexander C. Berg. The 2026 edition ran three tracks on Qualcomm hardware — image-to-text retrieval, video action recognition, and AI-generated image detection — each scored under a strict latency budget, with $6,000 to the winner of each track.
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