Alex James is an Indian scientist who is a professor of AI hardware at School of Electronic Systems and Automation, and

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at Digital University Kerala (IIITM-K). He is the professor in charge of Maker Village,

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, Chief Investigator of the centre for Intelligent IoT Sensors, and India Innovation Centre for

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. James features in top 1% scientists list published by Elsevier, Elsevier BV in the world in the field of

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. He appeared in the list for the third consecutive time. He specializes in the scientific field of Memristive Systems, AI hardware,

Neuromorphic Neuromorphic engineering, also known as neuromorphic computing, is the use of electronic circuits to mimic neuro-biological architectures present in the nervous system. A neuromorphic computer/chip is any device that uses physical artificial ne ...

VLSI (very-large-scale integration) system, Intelligent Imaging and

Machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

, and

Analogue electronics Analogue electronics ( en-US, analog electronics) are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal, in contrast to digital electronics where signals usually take only two levels. The term "analogue" describes the proportional relati ...

Education and career

James earned his Ph.D. degree from the Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre,

Griffith University Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian s ...

, Brisbane, Australia. Since 2009, he has been working as a faculty member at different universities in

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and

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. He was a Member of IET Vision and Imaging Network, and is a Member of BCS’ Fellows Technical Advisory Group (F-TAG). He is the founding chair for

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Section Circuits and Systems Society, and is a fellow of

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(FBCS), and

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. He was an Editorial Board Member of

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(2010–2014), Elsevier, and associate editor for HCIS (2015–2020),

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; and Guest Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in

Computational Intelligence The expression computational intelligence (CI) usually refers to the ability of a computer to learn a specific task from data or experimental observation. Even though it is commonly considered a synonym of soft computing, there is still no c ...

(2017). Currently he is serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers journal.

Scientific research

IIITM-K has achieved a breakthrough in developing Analogue

Integrated circuit An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny ...

for implementing Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) in a joint research project with Analogue Circuits and Image Sensors Lab, Siegen university and Fraunhofer, Germany, and Centre for Excellence in

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and Neuromorphic Systems (neuroAGI). According to A. P. James, professor at the School of Electronics at IIITM-K, this complicated and meticulous AI circuits research can accelerate and operate GAN applications in low power devices. It also can be used to analyze and interpret

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data for a possible solution to the pandemic. An AI Semantic search engine has been created by a research team led by A.P. James to help researchers gain deeper insights into Scientific Investigation, particularly since the

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issue has necessitated the collection of a significant amount of complex scientific data. The search engine is called "www.vilokana.in, which is

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for "finding out.

Awards and honors

James is a member of IEEE CASS Technical committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems, IEEE CASS Technical committee on

Cellular Cellular may refer to: *Cellular automaton, a model in discrete mathematics * Cell biology, the evaluation of cells work and more * ''Cellular'' (film), a 2004 movie *Cellular frequencies, assigned to networks operating in cellular RF bands *Cell ...

Nanoscale networks A nanonetwork or nanoscale network is a set of interconnected nanomachines (devices a few hundred nanometers or a few micrometers at most in size), which are able to perform only very simple tasks such as computing, data storing, sensing and ac ...

and

Memristor A memristor (; a portmanteau of ''memory resistor'') is a non-linear two-terminal electrical component relating electric charge and magnetic flux linkage. It was described and named in 1971 by Leon Chua, completing a theoretical quartet of fu ...

Array Computing, IEEE Consumer Technology Society Technical Committee on Quantum in Consumer Technology (QCT), Technical Committee on Machine learning,

Deep learning Deep learning (also known as deep structured learning) is part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks with representation learning. Learning can be supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised. De ...

and AI in CE (MDA) and Member of BCS’ Fellows Technical Advisory Group (F-TAG). James was awarded best associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers TCAS-I, by the

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(IEEE CASS) for the year 2020-21. He has been an associate editor for the journal since 2017. He is also an editorial board member of PeerJ CS and a Senior Member of IEEE, Life Member of ACM, Senior Fellow of HEA.

References

External links

A. P. James
on official website of Digital University Kerala
Alex James
on ieeexplore
James, Alex Pappachen
on

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Professor Dr. Alex James features in Stanford University’s list of top 2% scientists in the world
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