Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan is a computer science academic from KINDI Center for Computing Research, Qatar University. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for "contributions to optimization using evolutionary and swarm algorithms". Suganthan's main research contributions are in the areas of evolutionary algorithms,

swarm intelligence Swarm intelligence (SI) is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence. The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in ...

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 ...

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

, and pattern recognition. His Google Scholar citation index is more than 72,000. Suganthan studied at Union College, Tellippalai, Jaffna,

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

, from primary school until year 12. He scored the highest aggregate of 372 in the 1986 GCE Advanced Level in Sri Lanka and received a full scholarship to the University of Cambridge. After completing his PhD research in 1995, he served as a research assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sydney in 1995–96 and a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland in 1996–99. He moved to Qatar University in 2022. Suganthan is a founding co-editor-in-chief of ''Swarm and Evolutionary Computation''. He is a member of the editorial board of ''

Evolutionary Computation In computer science, evolutionary computation is a family of algorithms for global optimization inspired by biological evolution, and the subfield of artificial intelligence and soft computing studying these algorithms. In technical terms, they ...

'' (MIT Press), and an associate editor of ''IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics'', ''

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation ''IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. It covers evolutionary computation and related areas including nature-inspired algorithm ...

'', '' Information Sciences'' (Elsevier), '' Pattern Recognition'' (Elsevier) and ''International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research''. He was selected as a highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters from 2015 to 2023 in computer science (the World's Most Influential Scientists, 2015).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Suganthan, P. N. Union College, Tellippalai Fellows of the IEEE Living people Academic staff of Nanyang Technological University Singaporean engineers Sri Lankan Tamil people Sri Lankan academics Year of birth missing (living people)