Shri FC Kohli Day

Kohli Centre of Intelligent Systems (KCIS) at IIITH commemorates the birth anniversary of Sri FC Kohli with
a special program celebrating his life through nurturing research and innovation.

17th March 2026
4:00 - 4:05 PM [IST]
Inauguration and Welcome Address
Introduction FC Kohli Day
4:05 - 5:00 PM [IST]
KCIS Distinguished Lecture by Prof Takeo Kanade, SCS Founder University Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Prof Takeo Kanade
University Professor, Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Bio: Takeo Kanade, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Robotics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, received the prestigious 2016 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology on Nov. 10, 2016 in a ceremony in Kyoto, Japan.

The international award is presented by the Inamori Foundation to individuals such as Kanade who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of humankind. Kanade’s prize recognizes his pioneering contributions to computer vision and robotics.

He received his Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1974. After holding a faculty position in the Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, he joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1980. He was the Director of the Robotics Institute from 1992 to 2001. He also founded the Digital Human Research Center in Tokyo and served as founding director.

Dr. Kanade works in multiple areas of robotics: computer vision, multi-media, manipulators, autonomous mobile robots, medical robotics and sensors. He has written more than 400 technical papers and reports in these areas and holds more than 20 patents. He has been the principal investigator of more than a dozen major vision and robotics projects at Carnegie Mellon.

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