Alex James

Dr. Alex James

Dean External Linkages, Professor

“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:

  • 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:

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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