Chivukula Anjaneya Murthy

Chivukula Anjaneya Murthy
Born 1958 (1958)
Ongole, India
Died 14 March 2018(2018-03-14) (aged 60)
Kolkata, India
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Indian Statistical Institute
Known for Convergence of Genetic Algorithm
Awards Indian National Academy of Engineering Fellow (2001),
National Academy of Sciences Fellow (2007),
VASVIK Fellow (1999)
Scientific career
Fields Statistics, Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence
Institutions Indian Statistical Institute
Website www.isical.ac.in/~murthy/

C. A. Murthy (Chivukula Anjaneya Murthy) (1958-2018) was a senior Scientist and HAG (Higher Academic Grade) Professor of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), whose primary research contributions were to the fields of Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Fractals, Genetic Algorithms, Wavelets and Data Mining,.[1]

He was the Head (2005-2010) of Machine Intelligence Unit, ISI and Professor-in-Charge (2012-2014) of the Computer and Communication Sciences Division, ISI.

Education

Murthy received his B. Stat., M. Stat. and Ph.D. degrees from Indian Statistical Institute, India .[1] He was a visiting researcher at Michigan State University, East Lansing in 1991-92, and the Pennsylvania State University, University Park in 1996-97 .[2]

Awards and recognition

Murthy was a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering Fellow (2001), National Academy of Sciences Fellow (2007) [1] and VASVIK Fellow (1999). [3] Murthy's “An efficient method of hard and fuzzy clustering of multidimensional data” was awarded Computer Engineering Division Medal by the Institution of Engineers (India) in 1996-97.

According to Google Scholar, Murthy's work has been cited more than 5,000 times.[4]

Murthy's NPTEL [5] [6] lecture series on pattern recognition has been reached more than 1 million views.

Patents

Murthy's invention can be noted by his several research patents.[7]

Edited Books

1. S. K. Pal and C. A. Murthy (Guest Editors), Image Processing, Vision and Pattern Recognition, Special issue of Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, Part-A, vol. 67, A, no. 2, March 2001.

2. B. B. Bhattacharya, C. A. Murthy, B. Chanda and B. B. Chaudhury (Eds), Proceedings of international conference on Computing: Theory and Applications, IEEE Press, pages 749, 2007.

3. B. Chanda and C. A. Murthy (Editors), Advances in intelligent information processing, Platinum Jubilee Series, Indian Statistical Institute, World Scientific,2008. Series Editor is S.K. Pal. [8]

4. S. Choudhury, S. Mitra, C. A. Murthy, P. S. Sastry and S. K. Pal (eds), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on -Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), Vol. LNCS 5909, ISBN 978-3-642-11163-1, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg,2009.

Death

Murthy died in a road accident in front of ISI, Kolkata. [9] [10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 NASI. "NASI Fellows".
  2. ↑ IEEE. "IEEE Author".
  3. ↑ VASVIK. "VASVIK Fellows".
  4. ↑ Google_Scholar. "Google Scholar". Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  5. ↑ NPTEL. "NPTEL Lectures on Pattern Recognition". Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  6. ↑ NPTEL. "NPTEL Lectures on Pattern Recognition on YouTube". Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  7. ↑ Patent. "C.A. Murthy's Patent". Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  8. ↑ B. Chanda and C. A. Murthy (Editors). "Advances in intelligent information processing".
  9. ↑ The Times of India. "The Times of India, Mar 15, 2018".
  10. ↑ The Times of India. "The Times of India, Mar 16, 2018".
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