Sankar Kumar Pal

Sankar Kumar Pal is a Distinguished Scientist and Former Director of the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta. He founded the Machine Intelligence Unit in 1993, and the Center for Soft Computing Research: a National Facility in 2004 at the institute. He received a Ph.D. in Radio Physics and Electronics from the University of Calcutta in 1979, and another Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering along with DIC from Imperial College, University of London in 1982.

His areas of research interests include fuzzy sets and uncertainty analysis, artificial neural networks for machine intelligence, pattern recognition, image processing, data mining, genetic algorithms, rough sets, and soft computing. He has worked on hybrid intelligent systems like neuro fuzzy and rough fuzzy hybridization.

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