Ajith Abraham

Ajith Abraham (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Master of Science degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2001. He is currently the Director of the Machine Intelligence Research Laboratories (MIR Laboratories), a Not-for-Profit Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence Connecting Industry and Academia. The Network with HQ, Seattle, USA, is currently more than 1,500 scientific members from over 105 countries. As an Investigator/a Co-Investigator, he has won research grants worth over more than 100 Million U.S.$. Currently, he holds two university professorial appointments. He works as a Professor in artificial intelligence at Innopolis University, Russia, and the Yayasan Tun Ismail Mohamed Ali Professorial Chair in artificial intelligence at UCSI, Malaysia. He works in a multidisciplinary environment. He has authored/coauthored more than 1,400 research publications out of which there are more than 100 books covering various aspects of computer science. One of his books was translated into Japanese and a few other articles were translated into Russian and Chinese. He has more than 46,000 academic citations (H-index of more than 102 as per Google Scholar). He has given more than 150 plenary lectures and conference tutorials (in more than 20 countries). He was the Chair of IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing (which has over more than 200 members), from 2008 to 2021, and served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Computer Society representing Europe (2011–2013). He was the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), from 2016 to 2021, and serves/served on the editorial board for over 15 international journals indexed by Thomson ISI.