Person

Srinivasan, Mandyam Veerambudi (1948 - )

Born
15 September 1948
Poona, India
Occupation
Electrical engineer and Neurobiologist

Summary

Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan has been working in the Visual Sciences area of the Australian National University since 1985. He is interested in the principles of information processing in simple visual systems and their application to machine vision and is currently doing work on how bees perceive distance and communicate it to other bees in their hive.

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Born Poona, India, 15 September 1948. Educated Bangalore University (BEE 1968), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Masters degree in Applied Electronics & Servomechanisms 1970), Yale University (MPhil 1973, PhD 1977); DSc in Neuroethology, Australian National University 1994. Research Scientist, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yale University School of Medicine 1977-78; Research Fellow, Departments of Neurobiology and Applied Mathematics, Australian National University 1978-82; Assistant Professor of Biophysics, Department of Neurobiology, University of Zurich 1982-85; Fellow, Visual Sciences, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University 1985-91, Senior Fellow 1991-93, Professor, Research School of Biological Sciences and Executive Director, Centre for Visual Science 1993- . Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1995.

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