Biography: Professor Alex James received the Ph.D. degree from the Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. He works as a Professor of AI hardware at School of Electronic Systems and Automation, and Dean (Academic) at Digital University Kerala. He works in the broad area of brain-inspired systems, memristive systems, intelligent semiconductor devices, analog circuits and imaging systems. He is Prof-in-charge of Maker Village that supports over 80+ hardware startups. He is Chief Investigator of the centre for Intelligent IoT Sensors, and India Innovation Centre for Graphene, developing new products to the market. Dr. James was the founding chair for IEEE Kerala Section Circuits and Systems Society. He is a member of IEEE CASS Technical committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems, IEEE CASS Technical committee on Cellular Nanoscale Networks and Memristor Array Computing, IEEE Consumer Technology Society Technical Committee on Quantum in Consumer Technology (QCT), Technical Committee on Machine learning, Deep learning and AI in CE (MDA) , Member of BCS’ Fellows Technical Advisory Group (F-TAG) and Member of SIG on Electronics for Agrifood. He was an editorial member of Information Fusion, Elsevier, and is an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Neuroscience (Section: Neuromorphic Systems), IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (2017-18) (Guest associate editor), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1 (2018-present) and IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (2022-present). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Life Member of ACM, Senior Fellow of HEA, Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS), and Fellow of IET (FIET).
Research group: https://duk.ac.in/electronics/
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-1213
Recent fellowship and recognitions
- Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS)
- Fellow of IET (FIET)
- Senior Fellow of HEA, UK
- Best Associate Editor Award of IEEE TCAS1 for 2020-21
- Listed among world top 2% of scientists in electrical and electronics
- Australian Research Council Fellowship
- Chief investigator establishing the Centre for Excellence on IIOT Sensors
- Chief investigator establishing the India Innovation Centre for Graphene
- Member of BCS’ Fellows Technical Advisory Group (F-TAG)
- Member of IEEE CASS Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1: regular papers
- Associate Editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems