Prof. Kumar S. Ray received the B.E. degree in the Mechanical engineering in 1977 from Calcutta University, Kolkata, India, the M.Sc. degree in control engineering in 1980 from the University of Bradford, Bradford, U.K., and the Ph.D. degree in Engineering in 1988 from Calcutta University. He is a retired Professor of Electronics and communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. He was Visiting Faculty Member of the University of Texas at Austin under a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) fellowship in 1990. He has around 80 journal publications to his credit. He is the co-author of two edited volumes of North- Holland. Dr. Ray was a member of task force committee of the Government of India, Department of Electronics (DoE/MIT), for the application of AI in power plants. He is the founder member of Indian Society for Fuzzy Mathematics and Information Processing (ISFUMIP) and member of Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI). In 1991, he was the recipient of the K.S. Krishnan memorial award for the best system oriented paper in computer vision. Biographical sketch of Prof. Kumar Sankar Ray has been published in Marquis who's who in the World 2007 and Marquis who's who in Asia. His fields of interests are control theory, computer vision, AI, machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, fuzzy reasoning, neural networks, genetic algorithms, qualitative physics, DNA computing and possibilistic approach to quantum physics.
Broad Area of Teaching and Research
Control theory, Computer vision, Artificial intelligence, Fuzzy reasoning, Neural networks, Genetic algorithms, Qualitative physics, DNA computing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, Possibilistic approach to quantum physics, Soft Computing.
Recent (2005-2013) Research Area
Commonsense reasoning, Non-monotonic deductive database system, Automated surveillance system using video image analysis, DNA Computing, Watson-Crick automata, Deep Learning Approach to Computer Vision, Cyber-Security System based on AI methodologies.
Details of Ph.D. Supervision (with the name of Institute/ University where the thesis had been submitted):
a) Title of the thesis: Polygonal Approximation and Scale-Space Analysis of Closed Digital Curves
Submitted at: Indian Statistical Institute
Year: 1994
Name of the student: Bimal Kumar Ray
b) Title of the thesis: Neuro Fuzzy Reasoning for Pattern Classification and Object Recognition
Submitted at: Indian Statistical Institute
Year: 1997
Name of the student: Jayati Ghoshal
c) Title of the thesis: Similarity Based Approximate Reasoning
Submitted at: Indian Statistical Institute
Year: 1999
Name of the student: Swapan Raha
d) Title of the thesis: Reasoning and Classification based on DNA Computing
Submitted at: Jadavpur University
Year: 2017
Name of the student: Mandrita Mondal
e) Title of the thesis: Computation Power of Watson-Crick Automata and
its variant
Submitted at: Indian Statistical Institute
Year: 2018
Name of the student: Kingshuk Chatterjee
f) Title of the thesis: Fuzzy Answer Set Programming Using Interval-valued
Fuzzy Sets
Submitted at: Jadavpur University
Year: 2020
Name of the student: Sandip Paul
List of Recent Research Guidances:
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1 Prithwineel Paul: Post Doctoral Visiting Scholar from 01.01.2018 to 31.03.2018.
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2 Mandrita Mondal: CSIR Research Associate (RA).
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3 Sandip Paul: INSPIRE SRF at ISI Kolkata; PhD registration at CSE Dept at Jadavpur University.
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4 Debayan Ganguly: CSIR SRF; registered for PhD at Calcutta University.
Details of Teaching Activities:
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1 From 1993 to 2001 continuously I independently taught two M.Tech (CS) courses; namely Artificial Intelligence & Expert System (complete one semester) and Computer Vision (complete one semester).
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2 From 2007 to 2009 I independently taught M.Tech (CS) course; namely Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision course with S.N.Biswas.
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3 From 2017 to 2018 I independently taught M.Tech (CS) course; namely Artificial Intelligence.
Details of Participation in Externally Funded Projects:
I took active participation as a scientist of an internal group for Knowledge Based Computing System (KBCS) project from 1989 to 1994 under the academic leadership of Prof. D. Dutta Majumder. Under this project my job was to develop algorithm for recognition of occluded objects sensed as range data. For this project I was sent to Computer Vision Research Center of University of Texas at Austin under UNDP fellowship. At the vision lab of University of Texas at Austin I handled range sensor to collect data for the occluded scene of 3D-objects. A complete vision system was developed for which I was awarded K.S. Krishnan Memorial Award for best vision oriented system jointly with Prof. D. Dutta Majumder in the year of 1993.
Formal National and International Collaborations established:
MOU signed between University of Dayton and the Indian Statistical Institute.
Individual Scientists concerned in the MOU:
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1Professor Kumar Sankar Ray on behalf of Natural Computing Lab of Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of Indian Statistical Institute.
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2Professor Vijayan K. Asari on behalf of Vision Lab of University of Dayton.
Other Relevant Information:
a) I was a member of task force committee of Government of India, Department of Electronics (DOE/ MIT) for application of Artificial Intelligence in thermal power plant. On behalf of Government of India I acted as a consultant for NTPC for improvement of combustion control ckt. of 210 M.W. thermal power plant. I served this task force committee from 1992-1995.
b) From 2005 to 2008 I developed a new research area on DNA Computing under sponsored project of Indian Statistical Institute approved by Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and Divisional Committee for Scientific Worker (DCSW). Under this project, I developed a technology based on nano-computing for fuzzy inference used for different expert system approach. A detail report on such technological development is available at: http://www.isical.ac.in/~ksray/tech_report_new.pdf
From 2009 to 2013 I worked as principal investigator on extended concept on DNA computing approved by TAC and DCSW of ISI as ISI sponsored project where Mandrita Mondal worked as a project linked scientist.
I am also working on the project titled, "Automated surveillance system using video image analysis" with Kingshuk Chatterjee and Debayan Ganguly.
c) Other activities and recognition:
i) Founder member of Indian Society for Fuzzy Mathematics and Information Processing (ISFUMIP).
ii) Member of Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI).
iii) Biographical sketch of Prof. Kumar Sankar Ray has been published in Marquis who's who in world 2007 (see page 15) and Marquis who's who in Asia.
iv) Adjudicator of the Ph.D. Committee of the Kerala University.
v) Paper setter and examiner of MCA course of Dhanbad School of Mines.
vi) Examiner of the M.Tech Thesis of Kharagpur IIT.
vii) Reviewer of international journals like, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters.
viii) Research Advisor of NAN YANG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Singapore.