Dr. Ajith Abraham is the Vice Chancellor at Sai University, Chennai. Before joining Sai University, he held the position of Vice Chancellor at prominent institutions and was also the Founding Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a non-profit scientific network for innovation and research excellence with headquarters in Seattle, USA.
Dr. Abraham has completed research projects valued at over $110 million as an investigator or co-investigator from the United States, the European Union, Italy, the Czech Republic, France, Malaysia, China, and Australia. He has worked in a multidisciplinary setting for more than 35 years and has authored or co-authored more than 1,500 research publications in artificial intelligence and related applications in the industry. A handful of his publications have been translated into Chinese and Russian, and one of his books has been translated into Japanese. The Scopus database has approximately 1,400 papers indexed, whereas the Thomson Web of Science has over 1,000 publications indexed.
In addition to other esteemed universities, Dr. Abraham has worked with researchers from MIT (USA), the University of Cambridge (UK), Harvard University (USA), and Oxford University (UK). According to Google Scholar, Dr. Abraham possesses over 63,000 scholarly citations with an H-index of over 118. He has delivered over 250 conference plenary talks and tutorials in more than 20 countries. From 2008 to 2021, Dr. Abraham chaired the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing, which has more than 200 members. From 2011 to 2013, he represented Europe as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Computer Society (USA).
Dr. Abraham is continuously listed in the Stanford/Elsevier list, highlighting the top 2% of the most cited scientists across the globe. Based on 2024 data, ScholarGPS listed Dr. Abraham as one of the world’s top 0.01% cited scientists in the engineering and computer science fields.
From 2016 to 2021, Dr. Abraham worked as the Chief Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) at Elsevier, New York. EAAI is one of the oldest journals (founded in 1988) in the artificial intelligence domain. Additionally, he sat on the editorial boards of more than 15 international journals indexed by Thomson ISI. Dr. Abraham received his Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (2001), a Master of Science degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (1998), and a B.Tech (Hons) degree from the University of Calicut in 1990.
Sung-Bae Cho received a PhD degree in computer science from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Taejeon, Korea. He was an invited researcher of Human Information Processing research laboratories at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research) institute, Kyoto, Japan, from 1993 to 1995, and a visiting scholar at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia, in 1998. He was also a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, from 2005 to 2006, and at King Mongkut’s University of Technology at Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2013. Since 1995, he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, an Underwood distinguished professor from 2021, and a Yonsei Fellow from 2023. His research interests include neural networks, pattern recognition, intelligent man-machine interfaces, evolutionary computation, and artificial life. Dr. Cho was the recipient of the Richard E. Merwin prize from IEEE Computer Society in 1993. He received several distinguished investigator awards from the Korea Information Science Society in 2005 and Gaheon Sindoricoh in 2017. He is also a recipient of the service merit medal from the Korean government in 2022. Currently, he is a Fellow of IEEE, AAIA and KAST (Korea Academy of Science and Technology).