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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 60 papers as the first/senior author in top journals/conferences (IJCAI, T-NNLS, T-GRS, T-SMCS), and two of them won best journal paper awards. Additionally, his work has been recognized by Stanford University as one of the world's top 2% scientists in the AI domain. 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 - 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