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Prof. Swagatam Das

Prof. Swagatam Das
( Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India )

Swagatam das earned his B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, M.E. with a specialization in Control Engineering, and Ph.D.(Engineering) degrees from Jadavpur University, India, in the years 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. He is currently a professor at the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU) of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He is also serving as the Professor-in-Charge of the Computer and Communication Sciences Division (CCSD) of his Institute for the term 2024 - 26. He previously held the position of Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute for Advancing Intelligence (IAI), TCG CREST, Kolkata, India, from April 01, 2023, to March 31, 2024. His research interests encompass deep learning and non-convex optimization, and he has published over 400 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. Dr. Das is the founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, an international journal by Elsevier. He has served or is currently serving as an Associate Editor for several prominent journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Pattern Recognition (Elsevier), Neurocomputing (Elsevier), Information Sciences (Elsevier), IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, among others. He is a member of the editorial board of Information Fusion (Elsevier), Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), and so on. Dr. Das has received over 33,000 Google Scholar citations and an H-index of 87 to date. He has actively participated in the program committees and organizing committees of renowned international conferences such as NeurIPS, AAAI, AISTATS, ACM Multimedia, BMVC, IEEE CEC, GECCO, and more. He currently serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. He received the 2012 Young Engineer Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and the 2015 Thomson Reuters Research Excellence India Citation Award for being the highest-cited researcher in Engineering and Computer Science in India between 2010 and 2014.

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