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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Sankar Kumar Pal
| image = Prof. Sankar Kumar Pal.jpg
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| birth_date = {{bya|1950}}
| birth_place = [[Kolkata, India]]
| field = [[Computer science]]
| work_institution = [[Indian Statistical Institute]]
| alma_mater = [[Rajabazar Science College]] [[University of Calcutta]] [[Indian Statistical Institute]] [[Imperial College London]]
| doctoral_advisor =
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = [[Fuzzy neural network]] [[Soft computing]] [[Machine intelligence]]
| prizes = [[Padma Shri]] and more
}}
'''Sankar Kumar Pal''' (born 1950) is a computer scientist and former Director of the [[Indian Statistical Institute]], [[Kolkata]]. He is a computer scientist with an international reputation on [[fuzzy neural network]], [[soft computing]], and [[Artificial intelligence|machine intelligence]]. He founded the Machine Intelligence Unit in 1993, and the Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility in 2004, both at the ISI. He is the founder President of the [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]], Kolkata Chapter.<ref name=insa>{{cite web|author= INSA|title= Indian Fellow|url= http://insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N94-1155|work= Indian National Science Academy|access-date= 2013-06-04|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160812231045/http://insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N94-1155|archive-date= 12 August 2016|df= dmy-all}}</ref>

He is a recipient of S.S. Bhatnagar Prize in 1990. He was awarded [[Padma Shri]] in Science and Engineering on 5 April 2013 by the [[President of India]] [[Pranab Mukherjee]] in recognition of his work in machine intelligence.<ref name=net>{{cite web |author= NetIndian News Network |title= President confers Padma Awards on 54 personalities |url= http://netindian.in/news/2013/04/05/00023753/president-confers-padma-awards-54-personalities |work= NetIndian|access-date=2013-06-04 |date=5 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author= F wire|title= Padma Shri awardee favours honours to scientists|url= http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/padma-shri-awardee-favours-honours-to-scientists-603179.html|work= Firstpost|access-date=2013-06-04 |date=26 January 2013}}</ref>

==Education and career==

SK Pal studied at the [[University of Calcutta]] for his BSc in Physics (1969), BTech (1972) and MTech (1974).
He received a [[PhD]] in [[Radio Physics]] and [[Electronics]] from the [[Rajabazar Science College]] campus of University of Calcutta in 1979 as a student of Indian Statistical Institute, and another [[PhD]] in [[Electrical Engineering]] along with Diploma of the Imperial College from [[Imperial College London|Imperial College]], [[University of London]], in 1982. He worked at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] and [[University of Maryland, College Park]] from 1986-1987 as [[Fulbright Fellow]], [[NASA Johnson Space Center]] from 1990-1992 and in 1994, as NRC Senior Research Associate, Distinguished Visitor of [[IEEE Computer Society]] (USA) for Asia-Pacific Region in 1997, and [[US Naval Research Laboratory]], [[Washington DC]] in 2004 as a Visiting Scientist. He joined the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, as the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research|CSIR]] Senior Research Fellow in 1975, and eventually entered into full faculty in 1987, as Professor. He then became Distinguished Scientist in 1998 and Director in 2005. He was the first Computer Scientist as well as someone outside Statistics and Mathematics to become the Director of ISI in its 76-year history.<ref name=kes>{{cite web|author= KES International|title= Keynote Speakers at KES-AMSTA 2010|url= http://amsta-10.kesinternational.org/keynotes.php|work= KES AMSTA|access-date= 2013-06-04|date= 23–25 June 2010|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130922110806/http://amsta-10.kesinternational.org/keynotes.php|archive-date= 22 September 2013|df= dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=spr>{{cite web |author= Springer|title= Professor, Pal, Sankar Kumar: SHort Biography|url= https://www.springer.com/authors?SGWID=0-111-19-153707-0|work= springer.com |publisher=Springer Science+Business Media|access-date=2013-06-04 }}</ref>

His areas of [[research]] interests include [[fuzzy set]]s and uncertainty analysis, [[artificial neural network]]s for [[artificial intelligence|machine intelligence]], [[pattern recognition]], [[image processing]], [[data mining]], [[genetic algorithm]]s, [[rough set]]s, and [[soft computing]]. He has pioneered [[hybrid intelligent system]]s like neuro fuzzy and [[rough fuzzy hybridization]]. Prof. Pal is widely recognized across the world for his pioneering and extraordinary contributions in Machine Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic, Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition. This has made India a leader in these disciplines in international scenario. He is a co-author of twenty books and more than four hundred research publications. He has served/serving as editor in most of the well-known scientific journal in computer science and engineering (~20 international journals).<ref name=insa/> He visited more than forty countries as a Keynote/ Invited speaker or academic visitor.

According to [[Google Scholar]], as of April 2017 Pal's work had been cited 27,000+ times.

==Awards and recognition==

SK Pal is the recipient of numerous awards including the 1990 Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award (which is the most coveted award in science in India), the 1999 G.D. Birla Award, 1998 Om Bhasin Award from the Prime Minister of India, 1993 [[Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship]], 2000 Khwarizmi International Award from the President of Iran, 2000-2001 FICCI Award, 1993 Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, 1993 [[NASA Tech Briefs]] Award (USA), 1994 IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award (USA), 1995 NASA Patent Application Award (USA), 1997 IETE-R.L. Wadhwa Gold Medal, the 2001 INSA-S.H. Zaheer Medal, 2005-06 Indian Science Congress-P.C. Mahalanobis Birth Centenary Gold Medal from Prime Minister of India for Lifetime Achievement, 2007 J.C. Bose Fellowship of the [[Government of India]], 2008 Vigyan Ratna Award from Science & Culture Organization, 2013 Indian National Academy of Engineering Chair Professor, 2015 INAE-S.N. Mitra Award, 2017 INSA-Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture Award, 2018 INSA Distinguished Professor Chair, and 2020 National Science Chair. He is a Padma Shri awardee in 2013.<ref name=net/> He was elected Fellow of [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]], the [[TWAS|Academy of Sciences for the Developing World]] (TWAS), International Association for Pattern Recognition, International Association for Fuzzy Systems, [[Indian National Science Academy]], [[National Academy of Sciences, India]], [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] and [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]].<ref name=kes/><ref name=spr/>

==References==

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==External links==
*[http://www.isical.ac.in/~sankar/ Official Homepage]
*[http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Pal=3ASankar_Kumar=3A=3A.html Publication list at Indian Academy of Sciences]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304123412/http://www.yatedo.com/p/Sankar+K+Pal/famous/e9a8f5e5aa50f8af44f0fd3ef31941b1 Biography at Yatedo]
*[http://www.scientistindia.com/SSBhat.htm Biographical Dictionary of Indian Scientists]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Sankar-K.-Pal/e/B001H6O5QG Books at Amazon]
*[https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=V-pTYdUAAAAJ&hl=en Publications at Google Scholar]

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