Ajith Abraham

Ajith Abraham

Academic, Entrepreneur and Interdisciplinary Research Network - ajith.abraham@ieee.org

Greater Seattle Area

Current
  • Adjunct Professor at Jinan University
  • President and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Sofcomputing Inc.
Past
  • Professor at Chung Ang University
  • Professor at Yonsei University
  • Visiting Professor at Rovira i Virgili University
Education
  • Monash University, Australia
  • Nanyang Technological University
  • University of Calicut
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Ajith Abraham’s Summary

Ajith's research and development experience includes over 19 years in the Industry and Academia. He works in a multi-disciplinary environment involving machine intelligence, network security, sensor networks, e-commerce, Web intelligence, Web services, computational grids, data mining and applied to various real world problems. He has given more than 25 plenary lectures and conference tutorials in these areas. He has published over 500+ publications (with colleagues from nearly 30 countries ) and some of the works have also won best paper awards at International conferences.

Currently he is coordinating the activities of the Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), which has members from over 40 countries. He has a world wide academic experience with formal appointments in Monash University, Australia; Oklahoma State University, USA; Chung-Ang University, Seoul; Jinan University, China; Rovira i Virgili University, Spain; Dalian Maritime University, China; Yonsei University, Seoul and Open University of Catalonia, Spain, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. For about 2.5 years, he was working under the Institute of Information Technology Advancement (IITA) Professorship Program funded by the South Korean Government. He received Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Monash University, Australia and a Master of Science degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

He serves the editorial board of several reputed International journals. He is actively involved in the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS); Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA); Information Assurance and Security (IAS); and Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP) series of International conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IET (UK), IEAust (Australia) etc.

For further information, please visit: http://www.softcomputing.net
http://www.mirlabs.org

Ajith Abraham’s Specialties:

Research expertise: Hybrid soft computing, neural networks, fuzzy systems, global optimization, machine learning, multi-agent systems etc.

Application areas include: information security, Web intelligence, Web services, financial modeling, weather analysis, energy management, knowledge management, multi criteria decision making, scheduling etc.


Ajith Abraham’s Experience

  • Adjunct Professor

    University of Technology Malaysia

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; UTM; Education Management industry)

    November 2007Present (1 year 9 months)

    Research Consulting

  • Professor

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; NTNU; Education Management industry)

    January 2007Present (2 years 7 months)

    Research and development

  • Adjunct Professor

    Dalian Maritime University

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; DMU; Education Management industry)

    January 2006Present (3 years 7 months)

    Research Consulting

  • Adjunct Professor

    Jinan University

    (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; JU; Education Management industry)

    January 2006Present (3 years 7 months)

    Research consulting

  • President and Chief Technical Officer (CTO)

    Sofcomputing Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; SCI; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2004Present (5 years 7 months)

    Business consulting and management of software projects for industries, Government, policy makers and startups.

  • Professor

    Chung Ang University

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

    August 20042006 (2 years)

    Scientific research and teaching

  • Professor

    Yonsei University

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

    August 2006December 2006 (5 months)

    Research and Teaching

  • Visiting Professor

    Rovira i Virgili University

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; RVU; Education Management industry)

    June 2005May 2006 (1 year)

    Research consulting

  • Professor

    Oklahoma State University

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

    August 2002July 2004 (2 years)

    Teaching and research

  • Research Fellow

    Monash University, Australia

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2002August 2002 (8 months)

    Engaged in research and development of novel hybrid intelligent systems

  • Project Engineer

    Keppel Engineering, Singapore

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 1996February 1999 (3 years 2 months)

    Research and development engineer for several industrial projects

  • R&D Engineer

    Hyundai Engineering, Korea

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Oil & Energy industry)

    March 1993October 1995 (2 years 8 months)

    Research and development engineer for several industrial projects


Ajith Abraham’s Education

  • Monash University, Australia

    Ph.D. , Computer Science , February 1999December 2001

  • Nanyang Technological University

    MS , Control and Automation , 19961998

    Activities and Societies:
    School of EEE
  • University of Calicut

    B Tech , Electrical and Electronic Engineering , 19861990

    Activities and Societies:
    GEC

Additional Information

Ajith Abraham’s Websites:

Ajith Abraham’s Interests:

Computational intelligence, network security, web intelligence

Ajith Abraham’s Groups:

- Senior Member -- IEEE and IEEE Computer Society
- Member, Association for Computing Machinery
- Member, Institute for Engineering and Technology, UK
- Member, Institution of Engineers Australia, Australia
- Member, World Federation on Soft Computing
- European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology,(EUSFLAT) Working Group on Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
- EvoNet, European Network for Excellence in Evolutionary Computing
- EU/ME, European Chapter on Metaheuristics, Working Group of the The Association of European Operational Research Societies

  •    VLAB
  •    eOffice
  •    DFW Entrepreneur Network
  •    SAMAJ
  •    International Academy of Financial Management
  •    International Association of Software Architects
  •    P2P Insiders
  •    Business Intelligence
  •    A U.S. Government Relations & Public Affairs Group
  •    Telecom Professionals
  •    The Official IEEE Group
  •    Networlding
  •    Link2Europe
  •    International Network of Social Entrepreneurs
  •    Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
  •    Security Crew
  •    India Believers
  •    Mainframe Security Gurus
  •    Digital Forensics Association (DFA)
  •    Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
  •    LION LIONs™ Against SPAM!
  •    GamesProducers
  •    Linked:Seattle
  •    Information Security Community (30,000+ Members)
  •    Identity Management Specialists Group
  •    Speakers and Panelists
  •    National Information Security Group
  •    Certified Information Security Managers
  •    Professional Audit Information Network (PAIN)
  •    Web Analytics Professionals (+5000 web analytics members) Join now!
  •    ISACA Professionals
  •    Travelers Elite Group
  •    Friends of the United States of America
  •    Strategic Use of Information Technology
  •    Global Security Professional
  •    Friends of India
  •    Information Fusion (Including Multi-Sensor & Multi-Source Sensor Fusion & Data Fusion)
  •    SecurityMetrics
  •    Artificial Life
  •    University of Calicut Alumni
  •    Intelligent Transportation Systems Academic Researchers
  •    Swarm Intelligence
  •    Networked Video Surveillance systems (NVSS)- CCTV, NVR- Video Analytics
  •    Computing Reviews reviewers
  •    iFoundry
  •    IEEE SMCS TC on Soft Computing
  •    NHK WORLD Viewers

Ajith Abraham’s Honors:

-- Six Best Paper Awards --

Research Awards
- Outstanding faculty, Oklahoma State University, USA

Outstanding Service Awards
- Track Chair, IEEE International Conference on Information Technology, USA.

Industrial Awards
- Engineer of the Project Award, Hyundai Engineering Ltd., South Korea

Honors and Nominations
- Who'sWho of Emerging Leaders, Marquis Who's Who, USA, 2007.
- Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who, USA, 2007.
- Who’s Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who, USA, 2006.
- Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis Who’s Who, USA, 2003.
- Living Legends, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England
- Honorary Member of Research Board of Advisors, The American Biographical Institute Inc., 2001


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