Professor Kumar Sankar Ray Indian Statistical Institute Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit Natural Computing Lab 9th Floor, Library Building 203, B. T. Road, Kolkata 700108 West Bengal INDIA

Prof. Kumar S. Ray received B.E. degree in 1977 from Calcutta University, Kolkata, India,  M.Sc. degree in 1980 from the University of Bradford, Bradford, U.K. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1987 from Calcutta University. He is currently a Professor of Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta. He was Visiting Faculty Member of the University of Texas at Austin under a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) fellowship in 1990. At present he is also working as a collaborating scientist with university of Dayton (USA) under a MOU between U Dayton and Indian statistical Institute. He has about 70 journal publications to his credit. He is the co-author of two edited volumes of North-Holland. He has four authored book. Dr. Ray was a member of task force committee of the Government of India, Department of Electronics (DoE/MIT), for the application of AI in power plants. He is the founder member of Indian Society for Fuzzy Mathematics and Information Processing (ISFUMIP) and member of Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI). In 1991, he was the recipient of the K.S. Krishnan memorial award for the best system oriented paper in computer vision. Biographical sketch of Prof. Kumar Sankar Ray has been published in the Marquis Who's Who in the World 1998 and 2007. Also his biography has been published in the Marquis Who's Who in Asia 2001. He is currently in charge of Natural Computing Lab (ECSU, ISI).