I slept and dreamt that life was
joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and
behold, service was joy -- Rabindranath Tagore
A human being
is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited
in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of
optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind
of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and
to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be
to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty -- Albert Einstein
I have more than 33+ years of
professional experience in the Academia and Industry. I believe that academic success is
all about having a strong influence on the community and uplifting
the needy while striving
for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge. It is
not just about personal achievements but how we are able to make a
positive difference to the world. I am all devoted to developing
and improving scholarly competence while holding the highest
ethical standards, integrity, accountability and responsibility. I
am a strong proponent of equality of opportunity in good quality
education regardless of social background, race, gender or
religion and where people achieve success according to their
efforts and ability, free of any form of discrimination.
Information provided below is just to inspire and motivate the young researchers.
I received Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of
Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia (2001), Master of Science Degree from
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (1998) and
Bachelor of Technology (Honours) degree in Electrical and
Electronics Engineering from the University of Calicut, India
(1990).
I am the Founding Director (since 2008) of Machine Intelligence
Research Labs (MIR Labs), a Not-for-Profit Scientific Network
for Innovation and Research Excellence connecting Industry and
Academia. The network has currently more than 1,000+ scientific
members from over 100+ countries. The
ongoing Industrial revolution is changing our lives in ways
never imagined before with huge changes in the economy and a
whole new level of global inter connected markets. Rapid
extraordinary advances in computational processing power,
Internet connectivity, Internet of things, cyber physical
systems and machine intelligence makes it a challenging task
even for the most experienced experts to anticipate the future
in the field. Artificial Intelligence is a multi- disciplinary
research field with immense applications in manufacturing,
agriculture, e-commerce, complex data analysis, homeland
security etc. My primary research is on developing machine
intelligence using hybridization of function approximation
methods, approximate reasoning and global optimization methods
focused on big data analytics, understanding complex networks,
information security, Web intelligence, decision support
systems, Internet of things etc.
As an Investigator / Co-Investigator, my research team has won
research grants worth over 100+Million US$ from USA, European
Union, Italy, Czech Republic, France, Malaysia, China and
Australia. In these areas I have authored / co-authored more
than 1,300+
research publications out of which there are 100+ books
covering various aspects of Computer Science. One of my books
was translated to Japanese and few other articles were
translated to Russian and Chinese. About 1,200+
publications are indexed by Scopus and over 900+
are indexed by Thomson Web of Science. My 1,200+
co-authors originate from 65+ countries. I had the opportunity
to collaborate with researchers from top Universities like MIT, USA,
University
of Cambridge, UK, Harvard University, USA and
Oxford
University, UK. Table below illustrates the citation
matrices as per Google
Scholar, Scopus
and Web
of Science.
Table 1: Citation matrices
Figure 1: Research keywords-cloud
I have immense teaching
experience dealing with a wide variety of artificial
intelligence courses, data mining, e-commerce and core courses
in computer science for undergraduate and graduate classes.
Under my academic supervision, 14 students received Ph.D.
degrees and have also supervised 6 masters thesis. Besides, I
am also experienced in developing new courses. I have examined
over 100+ Ph.D. theses and is a regular examiner of several
Universities around the globe. I am / was officially
associated with the following Universities:
Oceania
- Monash University,
Australia
Americas
- Oklahoma State University,
USA
- Southern Illinois
University, USA
Europe
- National Institute of
Applied Sciences, France
- University of Pisa, Italy
- Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Norway
- University of the Basque
Country, Spain
- Rovira i Virgili
University, Spain
- Open University of
Catalonia, Spain
- AGH University of Science
and Technology, Poland
- Wrocław University of
Technology, Poland
- Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Hungary
- VSB-Technical University of
Ostrava, Czech Republic
- Innopolis University,
Russia
Asia
- Chung-Ang University, South
Korea
- Yonsei University, South
Korea
- Beijing University of
Chemical Technology, China
- Jinan University, China
- Dalian Maritime University,
China
- Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknikal
Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
- Universiti Putra Malaysia,
Malaysia
- UCSI University, Malaysia
- FLAME University, India
Africa
- Addis Ababa University,
Ethiopia
- Sudan University of Science
and Technology, Sudan
Middle-East
- Kazakh-British Technical
University, Kazakstan
I have given more than
150+ plenary / keynote lectures and conference tutorials (in 20+
countries). Won Nine best paper awards at prestigious
International conferences held in Belgium, Canada, Czech
Republic, China, Bahrain and India. I was the Co- Chair of the
IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on
Soft Computing during 2008-2021. This Technical committee also
won the best Technical Committee award of the IEEE SMC Society
in 2008 and 2017. I have also served as a Distinguished Lecturer
of IEEE Computer Society representing Europe (2011-2013). I also
served as the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Applications of
Artificial Intelligence 2016-2021) and also serve/served
the editorial board of over 15 International Journals indexed by
Thomson ISI. Since 2001, as a
General Chair / Program Chair, I have organized several
International Conferences and some of them are now annual
events.
- 23 years of Hybrid Intelligent
Systems (HIS): Portugal, India, Morocco, South Korea,
Kuwait, Tunisia, Malaysia, USA, China, Spain, Germany, New
Zealand, Brazil, Japan, Switzerland, Lithuania, Australia and
Chile
- 23 years of Intelligent Systems Design and Applications
(ISDA): India, Portugal, Morocco, Japan,
Malaysia, Spain, Egypt, Italy, Taiwan, Brazil, China, Poland,
Switzerland, Lithuania, Hungary
and USA
- 19 years of Information Assurance and Security (IAS):
India, Portugal, Morocco, France, Japan, Tunisia, Brazil,
Malaysia, USA, China, Switzerland,
Lithuania,
Italy and UK
- 15 years of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition
(SoCPaR): Portugal, Morocco, India, Japan,
Tunisia, Vietnam, Brunie, China, Switzerland, Lithuania, France
and Malaysia
- 9 years of Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP):
Brazil, Spain, India, Czech Republic and South Korea
- 8 years of Computational Aspects of Social Networks
(CASoN): India, South Africa, Portugal, USA, Brazil,
Spain, China and France
- 12 years of Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing
(NaBIC): India, Morocco, South Africa, Portugal, USA,
Mexico, Switzerland,
Lithuania,
Spain and Japan
- 14 years of Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications
(IBICA): India, Portugal, Morocco, France, Czech
Republic, Switzerland,
Lithuania,
Taiwan and China
- 13 years of Information and Communication Technologies
(WICT): India, Portugal, Morocco, Switzerland, Lithuania, Japan and
Vietnam
- 7 years European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM): Spain,
Portugal, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany and Netherlands
- 8 years of Big Data Analytics, Data Mining and
Computational Intelligence (BIGDaCI): Portugal and
Spain
During my 3rd year under-graduate
engineering studies, I got a campus selection job in the
Industry. Further, I was selected by the Economic
Development Board, Singapore in 1994. This helped me to get
an early exposure in the top notch Engineering Industries as
a research and development engineer (in India, South Korea
and Singapore) for nearly 7+ years. Since
2001, I am a naturalized Australian citizen. I had been to over
100+ countries. Traveling has exposed me to new environments,
which many a times require
a test of character, the ability to respond in any given
situation and is very fulfilling and
educational. My
passion for traveling has made me a
naturally curious being, more
humble, modest and formulate a simple perception about
human life. I am always fascinated to know
about different cultures, food habits, arts etc. Thank
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stay safe !
