Venkatesh Babu received his Ph.D degree from Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thereafter, he held postdoctoral positions at NTNU, Norway and IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France, through ERCIM fellowship. Subsequently, he worked as a research fellow at NTU, Singapore. He spent couple of years working in industry before returning back to the institute in August 2010. He is currently a Professor at Dept. of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), IISc. He is the convener of Vision and AI Lab (VAL) (formerly, Video Analytics Lab) at IISc. His research interests include Computer Vision and Machine Learning. He is a recipient of the SERB Star (2020) and Sathish Dhawan Young Engineer awards (2019). He serves as a Program Chair of the AIML-Systems 2023 conference. He serves as an associate editor for Pattern Recognition and area editor for CVIU journals. He also serves as an area chair for the following conferences: CVPR, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICCV, WACV, ACML, AISTATS, and ACML.