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Sankar K. Pal (https://www.isical.ac.in/~sankar)
is a Distinguished
Scientist and former
Director of Indian
Statistical Institute (ISI).
Currently, he is a
National Science Chair,
Govt. of India, and the
President of Indian
Statistical Institute
as well as its Emeritus
Professor. He is also an
AICTE nominated AICTE-Distinguished
Chair Professor, and a
Scholar-in-Residence of
IIT Jodhpur. He founded
the Machine Intelligence
Unit and the Center for
Soft Computing Research:
A National Facility in
ISI, Calcutta. He
received a Ph.D. in
Radio Physics and
Electronics from Indian
Statistical Institute/
University of Calcutta
in 1979, and another
Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering along with
DIC from Imperial
College, University of
London in 1982. He
joined his Institute (ISI)
in 1975 as a CSIR Senior
Research Fellow where he
became a Full Professor
in 1987, Distinguished
Scientist in 1998, the
Director in 2005, and
the President in 2022.
Prof. Pal 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 a
Distinguished Visitor of
IEEE Computer Society
(USA) for the
Asia-Pacific Region, and
held several visiting
positions in Italy,
Poland, Hong Kong and
Australian universities.
He is a co-author of
twenty one books, about
five hundred research
publications and two US
patents in the areas of
Pattern Recognition and
Machine Learning, Image
Processing, Data Mining,
Soft Computing, Neural
Nets, Genetic
Algorithms, Fuzzy Sets,
Rough Sets, Web
Intelligence, Social
Networks, Cognitive
Machine and
Bioinformatics. He has
made fundamental
contributions to machine
intelligence research by
developing various
modern approaches. He
pioneered the
development of fuzzy set
theory, and neuro-fuzzy
and rough-fuzzy
computing, in general,
and their applications
in pattern recognition,
image processing,
machine learning,
knowledge-based systems,
and data science and
analytics, in
particular.
Prof. Pal is a Fellow of
IEEE, the World Academy
of Sciences (TWAS),
International
Association for Pattern
recognition,
International
Association of Fuzzy
Systems, International
Rough Set Society,
Asia-Pacific Artificial
Intelligence Association
(AAIA), and all the four
National Academies for
Science/Engineering in
India. He is also a
Member of the European
Academy of Sciences and
Arts. He visited forty
five countries as a
keynote/ invited speaker
or an academic visitor.
He has received the 1990
S.S. Bhatnagar Prize
(which is the most
coveted award for a
scientist in India);
2013 Padma Shri (one of
the highest civilian
awards) by the President
of 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 President
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;
1995 NASA Patent
Application Award (USA);
1997 IETE-R.L. Wadhwa
Gold Medal; 2001
INSA-S.H. Zaheer Medal;
2006 Indian Science
Congress-P.C.
Mahalanobis Birth
Centenary Gold Medal
from the Prime Minister
of India for Lifetime
Achievement; 2007 J.C.
Bose National
Fellowship; 2013 INAE
Chair Professorship;
2013 IETE Diamond
Jubilee Medal; 2014 IEEE
Fellow Class Golden
Jubilee Medal; 2015
INAE-S.N. Mitra Award;
2015 DAE Raja Ramanna
Fellowship, Govt. of
India; 2017 INSA-Jawaharlal
Nehru Birth Centenary
Lecture award; 2018 INSA-Distinguished
Professorial Chair; 2020
SERB-National Science
Chair, Govt. of India;
First Prof. C. Mohan
Gold Medal Award for
Excellence in Soft
Computing from the Soft
Computing Research
Society, 2020; and 2021
AICTE-Distinguished
Chair Professor.
Prof. Pal is/was an
Associate Editor of IEEE
Trans. Pattern Analysis
and Machine Intelligence
(2002-06), IEEE Trans.
Neural Networks (1994-98
& 2003-06), IEEE Trans.
Fuzzy Systems (1993-95),
Neurocomputing
(1995-2005), Pattern
Recognition Letters
(1993-2011), Int. J.
Pattern Recognition &
Artificial Intelligence,
Information Sciences,
Fuzzy Sets and Systems,
LNCS Trans. Rough Sets,
Journal of Data,
Information and
Management, Applied
Intelligence (2002-12),
Fundamenta Informaticae
(2003-19), IET Image
Processing (2007-19),
Int. J. Computational
Intelligence and
Applications, Ingenierķa
y Ciencia (2014-15), and
J. Intelligent
Information Systems
(2008-12);
Editor-in-Chief, Int. J.
Signal Processing, Image
Processing and Pattern
Recognition (2008-19); 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, Int.
Journal of Approximate
Reasoning, and
Data-Centric
Engineering, Cambridge
Univ. Press; and a Guest
Editor of IEEE Computer,
IEEE SMC and Theoretical
Computer Science.
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