Dr. Shishir Shah
Director
Board of Director
OptraSystems
India
Biography
Dr. Shishir Shah is an entrepreneur, educator, and a hands-on executive with proven ability to develop and evaluate innovative technologies. He has a strong business and academic leadership record with broad competencies in strategic planning and direction, business and product development, operations, research and development and commercialization of technologies and services. He studied Mechanical Engineering as an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin, where he received his B.S. degree in 1994 and also received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering for his thesis on Vision-based Mobile Robot Navigation and Probabilistic Feature Integration for Object Recognition, respectively. Currently he is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the department of Computer Science at University of Houston. His current research focuses on human behavior modeling and analysis, scene understanding, video analytics, biometrics, and microscopy image analysis. He received the College of Natural Science and Mathematics John C. Butler Teaching Excellence Award in 2011 and the Department of Computer Science Academic Excellence Award in 2010. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Research Interest
Information Technology, Business management
