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

Academic, Entrepreneur and Interdisciplinary Research Network - ajith.abraham@ieee.org
Greater Seattle Area
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
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.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; UTM; Education Management industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Research Consulting
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; NTNU; Education Management industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Research and development
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; DMU; Education Management industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Research Consulting
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; JU; Education Management industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Research consulting
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; SCI; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)
Business consulting and management of software projects for industries, Government, policy makers and startups.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
August 2004 — 2006 (2 years)
Scientific research and teaching
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)
Research and Teaching
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; RVU; Education Management industry)
June 2005 — May 2006 (1 year)
Research consulting
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2002 — July 2004 (2 years)
Teaching and research
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — August 2002 (8 months)
Engaged in research and development of novel hybrid intelligent systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1996 — February 1999 (3 years 2 months)
Research and development engineer for several industrial projects
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Oil & Energy industry)
March 1993 — October 1995 (2 years 8 months)
Research and development engineer for several industrial projects
Ph.D. , Computer Science , February 1999 — December 2001
MS , Control and Automation , 1996 — 1998
B Tech , Electrical and Electronic Engineering , 1986 — 1990
Computational intelligence, network security, web intelligence
- 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
-- 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