Brijesh Verma

Biography

Brijesh Verma is a Professor and the Director of the Centre for Intelligent Systems (CIS) in the School of Engineering and Technology (SET) at Central Queensland University (CQUni) in Brisbane, Australia. He was a co-founder, a co-leader and the Director of the Centre for Intelligent and Networked Systems (CINS) that has been recently re-structured and re-named as CIS. He is the President of INNS (International Neural Network Society) Australia Chapter. He was the Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Queensland Chapter and under his leadership the Chapter won Outstanding Chapter Award. He has recently won best overall paper award at 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation in Sendai, Japan. His main research interests include Computational Intelligence and Pattern Recognition. He has authored/co-authored/co-edited 13 books (most recent books: Roadside Video Data Analysis: Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition Technologies and Applications: Recent Advances), 9 book chapters and over 150 papers [Download Papers via Google Scholar, Download Papers via CQU's Acquire Database] in areas such as neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, pattern recognition, computer vision, image processing, data mining, digital mammography and web information retrieval. He has developed a number of novel techniques for segmentation and classification of images, training of neural networks, creation of ensemble classifiers, optimisation using multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, segmentation of cursive handwriting, facial feature selection, detection and classification of microcalcification and web search. His publications and techniques have been widely cited (2749 Citations in Google Scholar, i10-index: 70, h-index: 28).

Research Interest

Engineering