Faculty Bio

Dr. Soman K. P. currently serves as the Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Head and Professor at Amrita Centre for Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN), Coimbatore Campus. He has more than 27 years of research and teaching experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science-related subjects at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. He has authored over 500+ publications in reputed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IEEE Access, Applied Energy, and several conference proceedings. He published four books, namely “Insight into Wavelets,” “Insight into Data Mining,” “Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel Methods” and “Signal and Image processing-the Sparse Way.” His book, Insight into Data, Mining, was translated into Chinese. He is the most cited author in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (more than 10,000+ citations). He has been consecutively ranked for the last three years as one of the World’s Top 2% Most Influential Scientist list published by Stanford University. He was also listed among the Top-100 computer science faculty by the Department of Science of Technology, Govt. of India for the year 2009-13 and by Career 360 and MHRD for the year 2017-18, and also in the list of the most prolific authors in the world, prepared by Springer Nature. Under his guidance, CEN runs an M. Tech course in Computational Engineering and Networking (Data Science) and a M. Tech course in Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence)—a new B. Tech program in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science is being introduced by CEN from the academic year 2023-24. He has guided over 20+ Ph.D. students and is currently guiding 8+ research scholars. Currently, he is working on AI applied to DNA sequence analysis, Reinforcement learning for Robotics Control, Computer Vision, and Cyber-Physical Systems.