Dr. Nishchal K Verma (SM'13) is Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Inter-disciplinary Program
in Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
He obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute
of Technology Delhi, India. He is an awardee of Devendra Shukla
Young Faculty Research Fellowship by Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India for year 2013-16.
His research interests include big data analysis, deep
learning of neural and fuzzy networks, machine learning algorithms,
computational intelligence, computer vision, brain computer/machine
interface, intelligent informatics, soft-computing in modelling and
control, internet of things/ cyber physical systems, cognitive
science and intelligent fault diagnosis systems, prognosis and
health management. He has authored more than 200 research
papers.
Dr. Verma is an IETE Fellow. He is currently serving as Guest
Editor of the IEEE Access special
section "Advance in Prognostics and System Health Management", an
Editor of the IETE Technical Review Journal, an Associate Editor of
the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, an
Associate Editor of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine,
an Associate Editor of the Transactions of the Institute of
Measurement and Control, U.K. and Editorial Board Member for
several journals and conferences.
Dr. Kumar Padmanabh is
working as a Senior Scientist in a research lab of British Telecom
in Abu Dhabi. Currently, he is working on various aspects of IoT
for Smart Commercial Buildings and predictive maintenance of IoT
enabled large equipment. Two of his research output (in current
role) has been productized globally. Dr. Kumar Padmanabh has a
general interest and expertise in IoT hardware, protocols,
middleware platforms and application of Artificial Intelligence on
IoT data. He has developed several products in the domain of
building automation and smart grid and they are available
commercially. He has experience of designing and developing one of
the largest Sensor Network / IoT network of the world involving
13200 connected sensors in which he developed hardware, protocol,
middleware, and application software. He has more than 40 research
papers and 24 patients (including 11 granted patents in
USA).
Earlier Dr. Kumar Padmanabh
worked in Bosch corporate research, General Motor Research Lab and
in Infosys Research Lab. He has also worked briefly in LNMIIT for
two semesters during 2016-2017. He earned a degree of Ph.D. from
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and an Executive General
Management Program from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
He is recipient of MIT Technology Review award of year-2010,
Infosys Thought Leadership Award of 2010 (highest possible honors
from Infosys). He was one of the finalists of Indian Mathematics
Olympiad 1994.He is actively engaged in creative writing and so far
he has published three books (fiction)
