“I enjoy being polymathic and learning lots of things!”
- Professor of AI Hardware, School of Electronic Systems and Automation
- Chief Scientist and CTO, India Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre
- Chief Investigator and Director, India Innovation Centre for Graphene
- Advisory Board Member, Digital Science Park
- Professor-in-charge, Maker Village, Kochi
- Professor-in-charge, IIITMK
- Chief Investigator, CoE IIOT Sensors
- Chief Investigator, AI Chip Centre
- Founder of startups ktoys.in (funded), kchip.in (funded)
Education: PhD from Queensland Micro-nanotechnology centre, Griffith University, QLD (completed in 2 years).
Group Website and Profile: www.aicas.info
Publications:
Academic and Administrative Experiences (post-PhD):
- Dean External Linkages (Aug 2024-present)
- Dean Academic (Aug 2022-Aug 2024)
- Associate Dean Academic (Aug 2021-Aug 2o22)
- Chair of School of Electronics (Aug 2021-Aug 2023)
- Chair of Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering (Jan 2016-Sep 2019)
- Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor (16 years Post-PhD)
Industry collaborations:
- Collaboration with 15+ companies on funded projects. In the areas of chip design, 2D materials, sensors, strategic areas, deep learning and algorithms
Awards and Recognitions:
Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS)
Fellow of IET (FIET)
Fellow of RSA
Senior Fellow of HEA, UK
2024 IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award
Best Associate Editor Award of IEEE TCAS1 for 2020-21
Listed among world top 2% of scientists in electrical and electronics (ranked 161 out of 119204 researchers, in 2024) based on Scopus citations (excluding self-citations). https://topresearcherslist.com/
2021 – Kairali Gaveshana Puraskaram, Government of Kerala
Australian Research Council Fellowship
- IEEE CASS Distingushed Lecturer (2024-2025)
IEEE Profile:
- IEEE CASS Distingushed Lecturer
- IEEE Kerala Section Distingushed Lecturer
- https://ieee-cas.org/contact/alex-james
- Present Regular Members (Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee (NCAS TC))
- Present Voting Members (CNN-MAC TC Committee)
- 2024-Present Associate Editor (IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS) Editorial Board)
- 2024-Present Associate Editor-in-Chief (IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems Editorial Board)
- 2024-Present Committee Members (Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committee (NSA TC))
- 2024-Present Associate Editor (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence (TCASAI) Editorial Board)
- 2022-Present Associate Editor (IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems Editorial Board)
- 2018-2023 Associate Editor (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I) Editorial Board)
Expertise in:
Analog Circuits, Mixed-signal Circuits, Signal Integrity
Neuromorphic VLSI, Neuro-memristive Systems
Cognitive Hardware Architectures, Brain inspired circuits
Quantum Image and Neural Systems
Image processing and recognition
Neural based NLP, Face and Speech recognition
Drones, IoT Sensors, Robotics
Graphene and 2D material Applications
Education, Arts and Philosophy