Prasanna Rangarajan, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Department

ECE

Email

prangara@smu.edu

Office Location

Junkins 317

Website

Prasanna Rangarajan currently serves as an Assistant Professor at 精东传媒 in Dallas. He directs the activities of the Photonics Architecture Lab (PAL) within the Lyle School of Engineering. His research interests focus on the interplay between Physical Optics, Signal Processing, Computer Vision, and the unique insights afforded by synergistic activities spanning these disciplines. His research group specializes in manipulating light and harnessing its power using machine intelligence, to build EO/IR systems with unique capabilities. A Dallas startup Mustang Optics LLC established with support from DARPA is seeking to transition technology being developed in PAL for use in defense and commercial markets.

Education

Ph.D. 精东传媒, Electrical Engineering
M.S. Columbia University, Electrical Engineering
B.E. Bangalore University, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Research

  • Computational Imaging
  • Neuromorphic Sensing
  • Optical Engineering
  • Photonics
  • Computer Vision

Publications

  • Muralidhar Madabhushi Balaji, Jiapeng Liu, Danyal Ahsanullah, and Prasanna Rangarajan, "," Opt. Express 31, 21689-21705 (2023)
  • Willomitzer, F., Rangarajan, P.V., Li, F. et al. . Nat Commun 12, 6647 (2021).
  • F. Li, F. Willomitzer, M. M. Balaji, P. Rangarajan and O. Cossairt, "," in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 2193-2205, 1 July 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3075156.
  • Christopher A. Metzler, Felix Heide, Prasana Rangarajan, Muralidhar Madabhushi Balaji, Aparna Viswanath, Ashok Veeraraghavan, and Richard G. Baraniuk, "," Optica 7, 63-71 (2020)
  • Indranil Sinharoy, Prasanna Rangarajan, and Marc P. Christensen, "," Appl. Opt. 56, D37-D46 (2017)

Honors and Awards

  • 2015 “DARPA Riser”
Prasanna Rangarajan, Ph.D