J.K. Aggarwal has served on the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin College of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1964. He is currently one of the Cullen Professors of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor Aggarwal earned his B.Sc. from University of Bombay, India in 1957, B. Eng. from University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, 1960, M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, in 1961 and 1964 respectively.

His research interests include image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition. The current focus of research is on the automatic recognition of human activity and interactions in video sequences, and on the use of perceptual grouping for the automatic recognition and retrieval of images and videos from databases.

A fellow of IEEE (1976) and IAPR (1998), Professor Aggarwal received the Best Paper Award of the Pattern Recognition Society in 1975, the Senior Research Award of the American Society of Engineering Education in 1992 and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in 1996. He is the recipient of the 2004 K. S. Fu Prize of the IAPR and the 2005 Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award of the IEEE. He is the author or editor of 7 books and 52 book chapters, author of over 200 journal papers, as well as numerous proceeding papers and technical reports.

He has served as the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1987-1989), Director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multisensor Fusion for Computer Vision, Grenoble, France (1989), Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (1993), and the President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (1992-1994). He is a life fellow of IEEE and Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society.

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