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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 is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India. His research interests include artificial intelligence (AI), generative models, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, optimization, and AI for Semiconductors. He has published over 100 research articles in leading journals/conferences and has received five best paper awards. 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 senior program committee member at leading AI and data analytics conferences.

• PHM-AP Data Challenge, 3rd Prize Winner (2025) 

• Listed in World's Top 2% Scientists, identified by Stanford University (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

• 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.

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

• JISRS - Best Journal Paper Award (2009)

• Journal editorial board

  • Guest Editor: Remote Sensing (special issue: Deep Learning for Remote Sensing 2022 - Climate Change I 2022 - Climate Change II 2024)

  • Guest Editor: Sensors (special issue: UAV-AI 2020) 

• 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, IEEE T-SMCS.

  • 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 Leadership Roles

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

  • Organizing Chair: IEEE SSCI 2018

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

• Senior Program Committee

  • AI conferences: AAAI (2026).

• Program Committee Member

  • AI conferences: AAAI (2023, 2024, 2025) - CAI 2024 - CIKM 2025 - ICML 2022 - IJCAI 2022 - NeurIPS 2026.

  • CV conferences: BMVC 2022 - CVPR (2023, 2024, 2026) - ECCV 2024 - WACV (2024, 2025).

  • Robotics conferences: ICRA 2021 - IROS (2019, 2026).

• Invited Talk and Keynote

  • NRF AI Methods for Science 2024 - ICETCS 2024 - SCA 2025 - IPFA 2026

• Tutorials

  • IPFA 2026