Awards/Honours

Visiting Researcher, University of La Rochelle, France, 2023.

Invited Academic Visit, ESIEE Paris, University of Gustave Eiffel, France, 2023.

Associate Editorship, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2022 - present)

Visiting Faculty, Arctic University of Norway, Norway, 2022 

Senior Area Editorship, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2021 - 2023)

Area Editorship, Pattern Recognition Letters (2020 - present)

Invited Academic Visit, University of La Rochelle, France, 2019. 

Associate Editorship, Springer Nature Computer Science (2019 - 2021)

Outstanding Reviewer, Pattern Recognition and Pattern Recognition Letters, 2018.

Associate Editorship, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2017 - 2021)

Invited Academic Visit, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2016. 

Invited Academic Visit, University of Padova, Italy, 2016. 

IAPR Best Paper Award,  International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP), Roorkee, India, 2016

Senior Membership, IEEE, 2016

Associate Editorship, Pattern Recognition Letters (2015 - 2020)

Visiting Scientist, University of Campinas, Brazil, 2015. (with funding from FAPESP (Sao Paulo Research Foundation)) 

Invited Academic Visit, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2015. 

Invited Academic Visit, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2014. 

Visiting Professorship, University of Münster, Germany, 2013.

Invited Speaker (for a panel discussion) at Indo-US Bilateral Symposia on Advances in Computer Vision, IIT Bombay, 2012. [Link]

Travel Grant from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India for paper presentation in the Eighteenth International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) at Brussels, Belgium, 2011.

Travel Grant from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) for paper presentation in the Seventeenth International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) at Hong Kong, 2010.

Travel Grant from the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) for paper presentation in the Twentieth International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) at Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.

Post-doctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA (August 2007 - December 2008).

Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA, 2007. (declined)

Earned an Erdos Number: 2, 2006. (Paul Erdos ---> Robert W. Robinson ---> Ananda S. Chowdhury) [Link]

Invited to present the doctoral research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA, 2006. [Link] 

Doctoral Dissertation Completion Award, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, 2006.  

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, 2006.

Computer Science Nominee for the James L. Carmon Award, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, 2006.

Teaching and Research Assistantships, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, (Jan 2003 - July 2007).

Sarojini Radhakanta Majumdar Memorial Gold Centered Silver Medal for securing the highest percentage of marks among all  the courses in Master of Engineering and Technology, Jadavpur University (2001).

University Medal for standing first in the Master of Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineering Examination, Jadavpur University (2001).

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Scholarship, India, (September, 1999 - March, 2001).

National Scholarship for the Bachelor of Science examination, India, 1996.

National Scholarship for the Higher Secondary (XII standard) examination, India, 1993.

National Scholarship for the Secondary (X standard) examination, India, 1991.