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Alex James

Dr. Alex James

Dean Academic, Professor

Research Interests: Brain-inspired systems, memristive systems, intelligent semiconductor devices, analog circuits and imaging systems

Profile: Alex James completed the Ph.D. degree in a short 2 years period from the Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. He works as a Full 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 MeitY funded centre for Intelligent IoT Sensors, India Innovation Centre for Graphene, India Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre, and AI Chip Centre 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 will be Associate Editor in Chief for Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (2024-25) and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (2024-25). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Life Member of ACM, Senior Fellow of HEA, Fellow of RSA, Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS), and Fellow of IET (FIET).

Research group: www.aicas.info

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-1213

Research/ Projects:

  1. Chief investigator establishing the Centre for Excellence on IIOT Sensors (Rs 42 crores ~USD 5 million) – Funded by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India, and Government of Kerala.
  2. Chief investigator establishing the India Innovation Centre for Graphene (Rs 86 crores ~USD 10 million)- Funded by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India, and Government of Kerala.
  3. Chief Investigator, Graphene Aurora Project, India Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre (Rs 95 crores ~USD 11 million)- Funded by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India, and Government of Kerala.
  4. Chief Investigator, Chip to Startup Program, AI Chip Centre (Rs 86 lakhs)- Funded by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India

Appointments

  1. Advisory Board Member, Digital Science Park
  2. CTO and Chief Scientist, India Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre (Section 8 Company)
  3. Director and Chief Investigator, India Innovation Centre for Graphene (Section 8 Company)

Professional Service:

  1. Associate Editor for IEEE ACCESS, (2017 – present)
  2. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (2017-18) (Guest associate editor),
  3. Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1 (2018-2023)
  4. Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (2022-present).
  5. Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (2024-2025).
  6. Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (2024-2025)
  7. IEEE CASS international outreach funding (2012, 2014, 2015, 2017)
  8. Organised IEEE Seasonal schools in 2017, 2021, 2022; Organising 6 outreach workshops in 2023
  9. Member of IEEE CASS Technical committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems,
  10. Member of IEEE CASS Technical committee on Cellular Nanoscale Networks and Memristor Array Computing
  11. Member of IEEE Consumer Technology Society Technical Committee on Quantum in Consumer Technology (QCT)
  12. Member of  Technical Committee on Machine learning, Deep learning and AI in CE (MDA)
  13. Technical committee member/reviewer in ICECS 2019-2023, AICAS 2019-2023, MWCAS 2019-2023, ISCAS 2019-2023; overall been a reviewer or session chairs or as program committee in more than 100 conferences in the career.
  14. Technical Program Chair – IEEE APCCAS 2023
  15. Track chair – IEEE MWSCAS 2023

Honors and Awards: 

  1. IEEE Kerala Section, Best researcher award 2022
  2. Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS)
  3. Fellow of IET (FIET)
  4. Fellow of RSA
  5. Senior Fellow of HEA, UK
  6. Best Associate Editor Award of IEEE TCAS1 for 2020-21
  7. Listed among world top 2% of scientists in electrical and electronics
  8. Kairali Research Award 2021, Government of Kerala
  9. Founding chair for IEEE Kerala Section Circuits and Systems Society which was selected to be awarded the 2023 IEEE Circuits and Systems Regional Chapter-of-the-Year Award: Region 10

Products/Prototypes Developed:

  1. Startup KToys – www.ktoys.in
  2. Transformer condition monitoring developed for KEL
  3. RFID tags
  4. Multimodal medical condition monitoring
  5. IoT sensor nodes
  6. Household devices with 2D materials (contact for more details)
  7. AI Chip based on RISC V processor – Kairali Processor Series A (contact for more details)
  8. AI Chip based on ARM processor – Kairali Processor Series B (contact for more details)

IEEE Engagement 

  1. Founding chair for IEEE Kerala Section Circuits and Systems Society which was selected to be awarded the 2023 IEEE Circuits and Systems Regional Chapter-of-the-Year Award: Region 10
  2. IEEE CAS Best Associate Editor for IEEE TCAS1 (2020-2021); 
  3. IEEE Kerala Section, Best researcher award 2022
  4. Associate Editor for IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (2017-18) (Guest associate editor),  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1 (2018-2023) and IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (2022-present).
  5. Associate Editor in Chief for IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (2024-2026).
  6. IEEE CASS international outreach funding (2012, 2014, 2015, 2017)
  7. Organised IEEE Seasonal schools in 2017, 2021, 2022; Organising 6 outreach workshops in 2023
  8. 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)
  9. Technical committee member/reviewer in ICECS 2019-2023, AICAS 2019-2023, MWCAS 2019-2023, ISCAS 2019-2023; overall been a reviewer or session chairs or as program committee in more than 100 conferences in the career.
  10. Technical Program Chair – IEEE APCCAS 2023 
  11. Track chair – IEEE MWSCAS 2023

Patents

  1. James, Alex. “AN INVISIBLE DRONE NETWORK SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE DATA TRANSMISSION.” (2022).
  2. James, Alex. “A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE AUTONOMOUSLY.” (2022).
  3. James, Alex, Anil, Kumar, Anju, Chandran. “A System And Method For Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Edge Computing Supported Gateway.” (2023).
  4. James, Alex, Rajalekshmi, TR, Shilpa, P. “Graphene-Based Intelligent Solar Panel For Radiation Shielding In Space Vehicle Applications.” (2023).
  5. James, Alex, Aswani, Radhakrishnan, Sruthi, P. “Data Processing Architecture For Designing Fully Reconfigurable Arithmetic Logic Unit.” (2023).
  6. James, Alex, Chithra, Raghuvaran, Aswani, Radhakrishnan. “Method Of Designing Secure Ai Hardware System Using Physical Unclonable Function.” (2023).
  7. James, Alex, Vineeta, Nair. “System And Method For Classifying Real-Time Images Using A Quantum Echo State Network Unit.” (2023).
  8. James, Alex, Kishan, Kartha. “Autonomous Multi-Copter 3d Drone Printer.” (2023).
  9. James, Alex, Rajalekshmi, TR, Shilpa, Pavithran. “Composition of a Graphene Dispersion To Enhance properties of a Material and a Method thereof.” (2023).
  10. James, Alex, Rajalekshmi, TR, Shilpa, Pavithran. “Method for Inducing Light Emission and Strengthening Glass Sculptures By Incorporating Graphene Nanoplatelets.” (2023).
  11. James, Alex, Vasudev, Mallan. “Method of 3D printing of interlocking floors using 2D composites.” (2023).
  12. James, Alex, Kishan, Kartha. “Intelligent IoT toys with integrated graphene surface sensor.” (2023).

Publications:

Journals (2020-present)

  1. Rajalekshmi TR, Rinku Rani Das, Chritha Reguvaran, Alex James, Graphene-based RRAM devices for neural computing, Front. Neurosci., Sec. Neuromorphic Engineering, Volume 17 – 2023 
  2. Nair V, Radhakrishnan A, Chithra R, James A. Memristive Pixel-CNN Loop Generate for CNN Generalisations. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. 2023 Feb 23;22:120-5.
  3. A. Radhakrishnan, D. Mahapatra and A. James, “Consumer Document Analytical Accelerator Hardware,” in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 5161-5167, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3237463
  4. Gawsalyan Sivapalan, Koushik Kumar Nundy,, Alex James, Barry Cardiff, and Deepu John, Interpretable Rule Mining for Real-Time ECG Anomaly Detection in IoT Edge Sensors, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023
  5. Mallan VS, Gopi A, Reghuvaran C, Radhakrishnan AA, James A. Rapid prototyping mixed-signal development kit for tactile neural computing. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2023;17.
  6. Radhakrishnan A, Pallathuvalappil S, Choubey B, James A. Bridge Memristor Super-resolution Crossbars. IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. 2022 Nov 16.
  7. James A, Toleubay Y, Krestinskaya O, Reghuvaran C. Inference Dropouts in Binary Weighted Analog Memristive Crossbar. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. 2022 Jun 13;21:271-7.
  8. Chithra R, Aswani AR, James AP. TMS-Crossbars With Tactile Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. 2021 Nov 16;69(3):1842-6.
  9. James AP, Chua LO. Variability-aware Memristive Crossbars-A Tutorial. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. 2022 Apr 22.
  10. Raj N, Ranjan RK, James A. Chua’s Oscillator With OTA Based Memcapacitor Emulator. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. 2022 Apr 19;21:213-8.
  11. Ajayan A, James AP. Edge to quantum: hybrid quantum-spiking neural network image classifier. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering. 2021 Sep 9;1(2):024001.
  12. James AP, Chua LO. Analog neural computing with super-resolution memristor crossbars. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. 2021 May 21;68(11):4470-81.
  13. James AP. The Why, What, and How of Artificial General Intelligence Chip Development. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 2021 Mar 30;14(2):333-47.
  14. Adam K, Smagulova K, James A. Generalised Analog LSTMs Recurrent Modules for Neural Computing. Frontiers in computational neuroscience. 2021:85.
  15. Krestinskaya O, James AP. Analogue neuro-memristive convolutional dropout nets. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 2020 Oct 28;476(2242):20200210.
  16. Irmanova A, Maan A, James A, Chua L. Analog self-timed programming circuits for aging memristors. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. 2020 Oct 20;68(4):1133-7.
  17. James A, Krestinskaya O, Maan A. Recursive Threshold Logic—A Bioinspired Reconfigurable Dynamic Logic System With Crossbar Arrays. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 2020 Sep 29;14(6):1311-22.
  18. Krestinskaya O, Salama KN, James AP. Automating analogue AI chip design with genetic search. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2020 Aug;2(8):2000075.
  19. Krestinskaya O, Choubey B, James AP. Memristive GAN in analog. Scientific reports. 2020 Apr 3;10(1):1-4.

Conferences (2020-present)

  1. P Sruthi, Aswani AR, Chithra R, James A. Analog Memristor Counter Arrays. In2023 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO) 2023 Jul 2 (pp. 111-116). IEEE.
  2. Navaz PM, Chithra R, James A. Memristive Crossbar for Hyper Dimensional Consumer Text Analytics Accelerator. In2023 21st IEEE Interregional NEWCAS Conference (NEWCAS) 2023 Jun 26 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  3. Radhakrishnan A, Babu S, James A. Python based Memristor Model Library for Variability Analysis. In2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2023 May 21 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  4. Mahapatra D, James A. Natural Outlier Rejection with Shepherd’s Psychometric Similarity Metric. In2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2023 May 21 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  5. Chithra R, Aswani AR, James AP. Memristive CNN for Wafer defect detection. In2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2022 May 27 (pp. 3284-3288). IEEE.
  6. Krestinskaya O, Salama K, James AP. Analog Image Denoising with an Adaptive Memristive Crossbar Network. In2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2022 May 27 (pp. 3453-3457). IEEE.
  7. Ibrahim V, Datta S, James AP, Paul JS. Interleaved Hybrid Domain Learning for Super-Resolution MRI. In2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2022 May 27 (pp. 3433-3437). IEEE.
  8. Aswani AR, Chithra R, James AP. Unstructured Weight Pruning in Variability-Aware Memristive Crossbar Neural Networks. In2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2022 May 27 (pp. 3458-3462). IEEE.
  9. Elamparithy M, Chithra R, James A. ImageSplit: Modular Memristive Neural Network. In2022 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO) 2022 Jul 4 (pp. 535-538). IEEE.
  10. Reddy BN, James A. Hardware Implementation of an efficient FIR filter for ECG Signal Denoising Application. In2022 29th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) 2022 Oct 24 (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
  11. Reddy BN, James A, Kumar AS. Fault-Tolerant Core Mapping for NoC based architectures with improved Performance and Energy Efficiency. In2022 29th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) 2022 Oct 24 (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
  12. Banerjee S, Kumar B, James AP, Tripathi JN. Blood Pressure Estimation from ECG Data Using XGBoost and ANN for Wearable Devices. In2022 29th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) 2022 Oct 24 (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
  13. Bakambekova A, Krestinskaya O, James AP. Generate while Sensing-Intelligent Imaging with Memristive Pixel-CNN. In2021 IEEE 21st International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO) 2021 Jul 28 (pp. 112-115). IEEE.
  14. Aswani AR, Kumar R, Tripathi JN, James A. Performance of Crossbar based Long Short Term Memory with Aging Memristors. In2021 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) 2021 Jun 6 (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
  15. Kumar R, Chordia A, Aswani AR, James A, Tripathi JN. Uncertainty quantification of memristor crossbar array for vector matrix multiplication. In2021 IEEE 25th Workshop on Signal and Power Integrity (SPI) 2021 May 10 (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
  16. Panja S, James AP. Belief Index for Fake COVID19 Text Detection. In2020 IEEE Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS) 2020 Dec 3 (pp. 63-67). IEEE.
  17. Irmanova A, Dolzhikova I, James AP. Self tuning stochastic weighted neural networks. In2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2020 Oct 12 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  18. James AP. Towards strong AI with analog neural chips. In2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2020 Oct 12 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  19. Krestinskaya O, Salama K, James AP. Towards hardware optimal neural network selection with multi-objective genetic search. In2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2020 Oct 12 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  20. Onyejegbu E, Dorzhigulov A, James AP. Biometric-aware pixel fused crossbars. In2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2020 Oct 12 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  21. Panja S, Maan AK, James AP. Vilokana-lightweight COVID19 document analysis. In2020 IEEE 63rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) 2020 Aug 9 (pp. 500-504). IEEE.

Books (2020-present)

  1. James AP. Deep Learning Classifiers with Memristive Networks. Springer: Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany; 2020.
  2. Maan AK, James A. Neuromorphic vision networks for face recognition. InMem-elements for Neuromorphic Circuits with Artificial Intelligence Applications 2021 Jan 1 (pp. 361-381). Academic Press.
  3. Krestinskaya O, James A. Analog circuit integration of backpropagation learning in memristive HTM architecture. InMem-elements for Neuromorphic Circuits with Artificial Intelligence Applications 2021 Jan 1 (pp. 427-438). Academic Press.
  4. Krestinskaya O, James A. Learning memristive spiking neurons and beyond. InMem-elements for Neuromorphic Circuits with Artificial Intelligence Applications 2021 Jan 1 (pp. 517-528). Academic Press.
  5. James A. Guidelines for benchmarking non-ideal analog memristive crossbars for neural networks. InMem-elements for Neuromorphic Circuits with Artificial Intelligence Applications 2021 Jan 1 (pp. 287-298). Academic Press.

Recent Collaborators

  • Leon Chua (University of California Berkeley)
  • Kaushik Roy (Purdue University)
  • Khaled Salama (KAUST)
  • Belur Dasarathy (Information Fusion Consultant)
  • Bhaskar Choubay (Siegen University/Oxford University)

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