Sankar Kumar Pal (born 1950) is an Indian computer scientist who has served as Director and is currently president of the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata. He is an ANRF Prime Minister Professor of the Government of India, currently hosted at IIIT Bhubaneswar. His research includes pattern recognition, image processing, fuzzy neural networks, rough fuzzy hybridization, soft computing, granular mining and machine intelligence, focusing on fuzzy set theory, neuro-fuzzy systems and rough-fuzzy computing for uncertainty modelling. He founded the Machine Intelligence Unit in 1993 and the Center for Soft Computing Research in 2004, both at the Indian Statistical Institute. He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1990 and the Padma Shri in Science and Engineering in 2013 for his contributions to machine intelligence.
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AwardJawarharlal Nehru Fellowship 1 AwardG.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research 1 AwardPadma Shri in science & engineering 1 AwardShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 1 AwardFellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikidata: Sankar Kumar Pal
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