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J. Senthilnath is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. He obtained PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India. His research interests include artificial intelligence, generative models, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, and optimization. He has published over 35 papers as the lead author in top journals/conferences (T-NNLS, T-GRS, T-SMCS) and two of them won best journal paper awards (IJIDF biennial 2016-2017 best paper award and JISRS 2009 best paper award), as well as the best presentation award at XXVIII INCA 2008. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field, Senthilnath has been identified as one of the world's top 2% scientists in the AI domain by Stanford University. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has served/serves as organizing chair/co-chair/PC member in leading AI conferences.

• Listed in National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore under “Advanced Semiconductor Technology Development” - the scoping study report highlights potential areas of opportunity for Singapore to embark on AI4Sci initiatives.

• Listed in World's Top 2% Scientists, identified by Stanford University (2022, 2023, 2024)

• IJIDF - Biennial Best Journal Paper Award (2016-2017)

• NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES), Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2016)

• IEEE IGARSS Travel Grant (2011)

• JISRS - Best Journal Paper Award (2009)

• XXVIII INCA International Congress on Collaborative Mapping and Space Technology - Best Presentation Award (2008)

• Journal editorial board

  • Guest Editor: Sensors 2020 -  Remote Sensing 2022 - Remote Sensing 2022 

• Journal Reviewer: 

  • Nature Publishing Group: Nature Computational Science, Scientific Reports.

  • Royal Society of Chemistry: Digital Discovery. 

  • IEEE Transactions/Journals/Letters/Magazine: IEEE CIM, IEEE T-CYB, IEEE RAL, IEEE GRSL, IEEE JSTAR, IEEE T-AI, IEEE T-ASE, IEEE T-GRS, IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-II.

  • Elsevier: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Applied Soft Computing, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Knowledge-based Systems, Neural Networks, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Remote Sensing of Environment, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation.

• Conference Chairs, Program Committee Chairs, Workshop/Session Chairs

  • Organizing Chair: IEEE SSCI'18

  • Program Co-chair: IEEE CIRS'18 - CIRS'19 - CIRS'20 - CIRS'21 - CIRS'22 - CIRS'23 

  • Workshop Co-Chair: DAI'23 - AI4SM'24 

• Program Committee Member/Reviewer

  • IROS'19 - TENCON'19 - ICRA'21 - ICML'22 - IJCAI'22 - BMVC'22 - AAAI'23 - CVPR'23 - AAAI'24 - WACV'24 - CVPR'24 - CAI'24 - ECCV'24 - CDC'24 - WACV'25 - AAAI'25.

• Invited talk & Keynote

  • ICETCS'24