Distinguished & Emeritus Professor, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan.

Distinguished & Dean, Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science (MITS), India.

Biography:

Prof Goutam Chakraborty is a Distinguished and Emeritus Professor of Iwate Prefectural University, Japan. From 2022 to 2025, he served as a Distinguished Professor and Dean of Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science (MITS), India. He spent short periods as a visiting professor at different universities, including one year at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

His research interests include machine learning, data science, and soft computing algorithms, and their applications in solving pattern recognition, prediction, scheduling, and optimization problems. His work has been applied to various challenges, including wired and wireless network problems. Recently, he has focused on medical data and image analysis, scale-free networks, and matrix completion problems. He has authored approximately 270 peer-reviewed research papers published in well-regarded journals and international conferences. Additionally, he has delivered keynote speeches and invited talks at various international conferences, served as an editor for several journals and edited books, and organized IEEE conferences in various capacities.

Presently, Prof Chakraborty is the steering co-chair of the technical committee on Awareness Computing, IEEE SMC, and steering chair of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. He is a life member of IEEE and ACM.