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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 also holds Adjunct Associate Professor position at National University of Singapore (NUS). 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, optimization, and AI for Science. He has published over 100 referred papers in leading AI and scientific journals/conferences (AAMAS, CIKM, CVPR, IJCAI, JACS, RSOS, T-CYB, T-GRS, T-IP, T-NNLS, T-SMCS). His work has received five best paper awards, and he has been recognized as one of the world's top 2% scientists in AI by Stanford University. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and has held various roles, including organizing chair, co-chair, and program committee member at 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)

• JISRS - Best Journal Paper Award (2009)

• Journal editorial board

  • Guest Editor: Sensors (UAV-AI 2020) - Remote Sensing (Deep Learning for Remote Sensing 2022 - Climate Change I 2022 - Climate Change II 2024)

• 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 2018

  • Program Co-chair: IEEE CIRS 2018 - CIRS 2019 - CIRS 2020 - CIRS 2021 - CIRS 2022 - CIRS 2023 

  • Workshop Co-Chair: Distributed AI 2023 - NRF AI4SM 2024 

• Program Committee Member/Reviewer

  • AI conferences: AAAI (2023, 2024, 2025) - CAI 2024 - CIKM 2025 - ICML 2022 - IJCAI 2022.

  • CV conferences: BMVC 2022 - CVPR (2023, 2024) - ECCV 2024 - WACV (2024, 2025).

  • Control & Robotics conferences: CDC 2024 - ICRA 2021 - IROS 2019.

• Keynote & Invited talk

  • ICETCS 2024 - NRF AI Methods for Science 2024 - SCA 2025