S.N. Jayaram (“Jay”) Murthy received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Communications in 1967 from Engineering College, Kakinada, India, and the M.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1969. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1974 for his work on visual texture analysis and synthesis.
Dr. Murthy joined Central Michigan University (CMU) in 1987 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He served as the Chairperson for five years. Before joining CMU, he worked as a regular faculty member at the Indian Institute of Science, Wayne State University, and the University of South Carolina. His publications, research, and teaching interests are in the areas of data/text mining, multimedia, pattern recognition, and computer vision.
Dr. Murthy spent his sabbatical at the University of California, San Diego during1994-95. The city of San Diego was rapidly gaining a reputation at that time for being known as "The Mecca of Multimedia". During that period, Dr. Murthy had a chance to interact with prominent researchers and professionals who specialized in the design of multimedia titles including video games. Upon his return to CMU, he developed a sequence of undergraduate courses in multimedia design. Enrollment in these courses has seen steady growth in the past two decades.