
Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair
Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair
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Dr. Jaya Sreevalsan Nair is currently a faculty member at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B). She leads the Graphics-Visualization-Computing Lab and is one of the core team members of the E-Health Research Center at IIIT-B. Jaya has research interests in human understanding of the physical environment, with a focus on data visualization, data science workflow design, and computational science. She works on identifying appropriate ensemble methods in data science workflows for complex datasets. Some of her recent work includes uncertainty analysis of the semantic classification of LiDAR point clouds, natural hazard susceptibility mapping from multisource GIS data, spatial and statistical analysis of population data, automated reverse engineering of chart images, and gaze tracking for cognitive load estimation. Her work has been supported by grants from the government (SERB, DST, GoK) and industry (Intel, IBM), to name a few. She is an ACM Senior Member and an IEEE Senior Member. Jaya is currently a Senior Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), and is an Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Earth Observations and Applied Remote Sensing (JSTARS), and the Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (JISRS), and an Academic Editor of PLOS Complex Systems (PCSY). Jaya has been awarded the Best Associate Editor of IEEE TCSVT for 2021. She is currently serving as the chair of the Special Awards Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), and is a member of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Committee for Airborne LiDAR. Jaya obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis, after a B.Tech. from the IIT Madras and an M.S. from Mississippi State University.