Sankar Kumar Pal

Biography

Sankar Kumar Pal obtained his BSc (Hons) (Physics) (1969), BTech (1972), MTech (1974) and PhD (1979), all from Calcutta University. In 1982, he received another PhD (Electrical Engineering) along with Diploma of the Imperial College (DIC), London. He worked at the University of California, Berkeley and University of Maryland, College Park (1986-87) as Fulbright Fellow, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston (1990-92, 1994) as NRC-NAS Senior Research Associate, Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society (USA) for Asia-Pacific Region (1997), and US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC (2004) as Visiting Scientist. His research career started as CSIR SRF (1975) at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, where he later became Professor (1987), Distinguished Scientist (1998) and Director (2005).

Research Interest

Computer Science, Soft Computing, Pattern Recognition and Image/Video Processing, Fuzzy and Neural Systems, Data Mining and Web Intelligence, Cognitive Machines, Big Data