Subhasis Chaudhuri is an electrical engineer and the director at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay He is a former K. N. Bajaj Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Bombay. He is known for his pioneering studies on computer vision and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies : the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy.He is also a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2004 for his contributions to Engineering Sciences.
Chaudhuri’s work have been mainly in the areas of pattern recognition, image processing, and computer vision. He is known to have developed a number of techniques including a methodology for acquiring super-resolved depth map from defocus and is one of the pioneers of researches in motion-free super-resolution. His work covered the fields of motion estimation, restoration, computational photography and biomedical image analysis, which has applications in cytology, microscopy, material science, biomedical science and pharmaceutics. Computational haptics is another area of his research. He has developed several new methodologies and holds US and Indian patents for a number of them.