P. N. Suganthan

Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015^[1] for contributions to optimization using evolutionary and swarm algorithms.

He is a computer science academic at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was selected as one of the highly cited researchers by Thomson Reuters in 2015 and 2016 in computer science, also known as the World's Most Influential Scientists-2015. His main research contributions were in the areas of Swarm intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, pattern recognition, big data and deep learning. His Google Scholar citation index is more than 24,000.

He studied at Union College, Tellippalai, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, from primary school until year 12. He scored the highest aggregate of 372 in the 1986 GCE Advanced Level in Sri Lanka and received full scholarship by the University of Cambridge

After completing his PhD research in 1995 from University of Cambridge, he served as a Research Assistant in the Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney in 1995–96 and a lecturer in the Dept of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland in 1996–99. He moved to Nanyang Technological University in 1999. He is an Editorial Board Member of the Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Trans on Cybernetics, IEEE Trans on Evolutionary Computation, Information Sciences (Elsevier), Pattern Recognition (Elsevier) and International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research Journals. He is a founding co-editor-in-chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation.^[2][3][4][5]

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