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Sankar K. Pal
is the Director and a Distinguished Scientist of the Indian Statistical
Institute. Currently, he is also a J.C. Bose Fellow of the Govt. of India. He founded the
Machine Intelligence Unit and the Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility
in the Institute in Calcutta. He received a Ph.D. in Radio Physics and Electronics from
the University of Calcutta in 1979, and another Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering along with
DIC from Imperial College, University of London in 1982.
He worked at the
University of California, Berkeley and the University of Maryland, College Park in
1986-87; the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas in 1990-92 & 1994; and in US
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC in 2004. Since 1997 he has been serving as
a Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society (USA) for the Asia-Pacific
Region, and held several visiting positions in Hong Kong and Australian universities.
Prof. Pal is a Fellow
of the IEEE, USA, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Italy,
International Association for Pattern recognition, USA, International Association of
Fuzzy Systems, USA, and all the four National Academies for Science/Engineering in
India. He is a co-author of fourteen books and more than three hundred research
publications in the areas of Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Image
Processing, Data Mining and Web Intelligence, Soft Computing, Neural Nets, Genetic
Algorithms, Fuzzy Sets, Rough Sets and Bioinformatics.
He has received the 1990
S.S. Bhatnagar Prize (which is the most coveted award for a scientist in India), and
many prestigious awards in India and abroad including the 1999 G.D. Birla Award, 1998
Om Bhasin Award, 1993 Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, 2000 Khwarizmi International Award
from the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2000-2001 FICCI Award, 1993 Vikram Sarabhai
Research Award, 1993 NASA Tech Brief Award (USA), 1994 IEEE Trans. Neural Networks
Outstanding Paper Award (USA), 1995 NASA Patent Application Award (USA), 1997 IETE-R.L.
Wadhwa Gold Medal, the 2001 INSA-S.H. Zaheer Medal, 2005-06 ISC-P.C. Mahalanobis Birth
Centenary Award (Gold Medal) for Lifetime Achievement, 2007 J.C. Bose Fellowship
of the Government of India and 2008 Vigyan Ratna Award from Science & Culture
Organization, West Bengal.
Prof. Pal is/was an Associate
Editor of IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2002-06), IEEE
Trans. Neural Networks [1994-98 & 2003-2006], Neurocomputing (1995-2005), Pattern
Recognition Letters, Int. J. Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence,
Applied Intelligence, Information Sciences, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Fundamenta
Informaticae, LNCS Trans. On Rough Sets, Int. J. Computational Intelligence and
Applications, IET Image Processing, J. Intelligent Information Systems, and Proc.
INSA-A; Editor-in-Chief, Int. J. Signal Processing, Image Processing and
Pattern Recognition; a Book Series Editor, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
and Applications, IOS Press, and Statistical Science and Interdisciplinary Research,
World Scientific; a Member, Executive Advisory Editorial Board, IEEE Trans.
Fuzzy Systems, Int. Journal on Image and Graphics, and Int. Journal of Approximate
Reasoning; and a Guest Editor of IEEE Computer.
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