Alex James is a Full Professor of AI hardware at School of Electronic Systems and Automation, and Dean (Academic) at Digital University Kerala.  He received the Ph.D. degree from the Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. He works in the broad area of memristive systems, intelligent devices, intelligent materials, circuits and imaging systems. He heads Maker Village that supports over 80+ hardware startups. He is Chief Investigator of national centres for excellence in Intelligent IoT Sensors, and India Innovation Centre for Graphene, developing new products to the market. He leads the efforts for the development of Graphene industrial ecosystem and setting up of Digital Science Park in Kerala. He is an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Neuroscience and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1. He is a Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS), and Fellow of IET (FIET).